Part 3

District salmon fishery boards

District salmon fishery boards

General powers and duties of district salmon fishery boards
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1
A district salmon fishery board may do such acts, execute such works and incur such expenses as may appear to them expedient for—
a
the protection or improvement of the fisheries within their district;
b
the increase of salmon; or
c
the stocking of the waters of the district with salmon.
2
The elected members of a district salmon fishery board shall, in accordance with Part 2 of schedule 2 to this Act, co-opt representatives of salmon anglers and tenant netsmen.
3
On such terms and conditions as the board think fit, a district salmon fishery board—
a
shall appoint a person to act as clerk to the board; and
b
may appoint persons to act as water bailiffs, or in such other capacity as the board see fit.
4
A district salmon fishery board may sue or be sued in the name of their clerk.
5
References in any enactment to water bailiffs shall include references to water bailiffs appointed under this section.
S. 45 in force at 1.4.2005 by S.S.I. 2005/174, art. 2