http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/274/section/6/madeFisheries (Amendment No. 2) Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2002Fishing licencesFisheries and aquacultureBylawsGovernment Printer for Northern Ireland2016-09-07FISHERIES
These Byelaws amend the Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 1997 by –prohibiting the Fisheries Conservancy Board for Northern Ireland (“the Board”) issuing a drift net licence in a case where a person who held a drift net licence has undertaken, in consideration of compensation paid or payable by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (“the Department”), to make no further applications for a fishing licence to use a drift net to fish for salmon or sea trout (Byelaw 4);reducing the maximum number of tidal draft net licences which may be issued in any calendar year from 6 to 2 (Byelaw 5);by requiring the Board to revoke a fishing licence or to refuse to renew a fishing licence where, in consideration of compensation paid or payable by the Department, the person who held it consented to its revocation; the Board is also required not to issue a person a fishing licence of any class which he has undertaken not to apply for (Byelaw 6);disapplying Byelaws 25 to 29 (appeals) where –a person has, in consideration of compensation paid or payable by the Department, consented to the revocation of a licence or (as the case may be) undertaken not to make any further applications for a fishing licence of the class the issue or renewal of which has been applied for (Byelaw 7);the Board does not, by virtue of these Byelaws, have the power to issue a drift net licence (Byelaw 7).
Revocation and issue of fishing licences
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In Byelaw 24 –
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the existing provision shall be numbered as paragraph (1); and
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after that paragraph there shall be added the following paragraph –
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Subject to the provisions of these Byelaws, where, in consideration of compensation paid or payable by the Department, a person who holds a fishing licence consents to the revocation of the fishing licence and undertakes to make no further applications for a fishing licence of a particular class, the Board shall revoke that licence or (as the case may require) refuse to renew it and shall refuse to issue such person a fishing licence of the class which he has undertaken not to apply for.
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