Sea Fisheries (Clam and Bait Beds) Act 1881
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1881 c. 11 |
| Year | 1881 |
Sea Fisheries (Clam and Bait Beds) Act, 1881
(44 & 45 Vict.) CHAPTER 11.
An Act to further amend the law relating to Sea Fisheries by providing for the protection of Clam and other Bait Beds.
[3rd June 1881]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short title.
1. This Act may be cited as theSea Fisheries (Clam and Bait Beds) Act, 1881.
2 Power of Board of Trade by Provisional Order to protect bait beds from injury by beam trawls.
2. Where the Board of Trade, on such application and after such local inquiry as in this Act mentioned, are satisfied that the unrestricted use of beam trawls in any area being part of the sea adjoining the United Kingdom, and within the territorial waters of Her Majesty's dominions, within the meaning of the Territorial Waters Jurisdiction Act, 1878, is injurious to any clam or other bait bed in that area, the Board of Trade may make an order for restricting or prohibiting or for empowering the authority named therein to restrict or prohibit, either entirely or subject to such regulations as may be provided by the order, the use of any beam trawl for taking sea fish within the area named in the order during such term of years, or during such period either in every year or in a term of years, as is limited by the order.
The Board of Trade may, by any such order, provide for enforcing the order, and any restriction, prohibition, or regulation contained therein by fines not exceeding twenty pounds for each offence; and the authority empowered by the order may be any person or body of persons corporate or unincorporated, and may, if it seem expedient, be constituted by the order.
An order under this section shall be subject to such confirmation by Parliament or otherwise as in this Act mentioned.
3 Persons who may apply for order.
3. An application to the Board of Trade for an order under this Act in relation to any locality may be made by memorial in that behalf presented to the Board of Trade by any persons appearing to the Board of Trade to represent the fishermen of the locality, or by any of the following authorities, if they appear to the Board of Trade...
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