Fisheries (Ireland) Act 1869
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1869 c. 92 |
| Year | 1869 |
Fisheries (Ireland) Act, 1869
(32 & 33 Vict.) CHAP. 92.
An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Fisheries of Ireland.
[9th August 1869]
Whereas it is expedient to amend the laws relating to the fisheries of Ireland: Be it therefore 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 for all purposes as ‘Fisheries (Ireland) Act, 1869.’
2 Application of Act.
2. This Act shall not apply to England or Scotland.
3 Commencement of Act.
3. This Act shall commence and have effect on the first day of October one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
4 Interpretation of term.
4. In this Act,—
The term ‘Lord Lieutenant’ means Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and the Lords Justices or other Chief Governors or Governor of Ireland for the time being.
Appointment of Inspectors, &c.
5 Inspectors to execute Act.
5. From and after the commencement of this Act the Inspectors of Fisheries for the time being acting in execution of The Salmon Fishery (Ireland) Act, 1869, and one other person to be appointed in manner by this Act provided, shall be Inspectors for the execution of this Act.
6 Power to Lord Lieutenant to appoint one Inspector.
6. From and after the commencement of this Act it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant to appoint a fit person to act together with the said Inspectors of Fisheries in the execution of this Act, and the person so appointed shall hold his office during the pleasure of the Lord Lieutenant; and in case of the death, resignation, incapacity, or removal from office of such person it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant to appoint a fit person in his place.
7 Inspectors of Irish Fisheries.
7. The Inspectors acting in the execution of this Act shall be styled ‘the Inspectors of Irish Fisheries,’ and all and every the powers, authorities, and jurisdictions by this Act given may be exercised by the said Inspectors and any one of them: Provided always, that all warrants for the removal of fixed engines, and all certificates relating to fixed engines, shall be signed by at least two of the said Inspectors, and that all byelaws, rules, orders, and regulations shall be made by at least two of the said Inspectors.
8 Transfer of powers, &c. to inspectors.
8. From and after the commencement of this Act all powers, rights, privileges, authorities, jurisdictions vested in or exercised by, and all duties imposed upon the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, the Inspecting Commissioner of Fisheries, and the said Inspectors of Fisheries appointed under the Salmon Fishery (Ireland) Act, 1869, or any of them, in relation to oyster, white sea, and salmon fisheries in Ireland by any Act relating thereto, shall be transferred to and vested in and may be exercised and shall be discharged by the Inspectors of Irish Fisheries acting in the execution of this Act during their continuance in office.
9 Lord Lieutenant, with consent of Treasury, to fix salaries, &c. and appoint additional officers.
9. From and after the commencement of this Act, it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant, with the approval of the Commissioners of the Treasury, to fix such salaries as he may think fit for the said Inspectors of Irish Fisheries acting in the execution of this Act, and also, with the like approval, to appoint such additional officers, clerks, and servants at such salaries as he may think proper and necessary, and from time to time to dismiss such officers, clerks, and servants, and appoint others in their place; such salaries to be paid out of monies to be provided by Parliament for that purpose.
Byelaws.
10 Byelaws.
10. The Inspectors of Irish Fisheries shall in addition to their other duties, as soon as they conveniently can, make local and other inquiry into the expediency and necessity of altering, amending, or repealing any definition of the boundaries of the mouth or estuary of any river, or any byelaws heretofore made, or of making new definitions of the boundaries of the mouths or estuaries of rivers, or new byelaws relating to fisheries in Ireland; and if on such inquiry they shall be satisfied of such expediency or necessity, it shall be lawful for them, subject to the approval of the Lord Lieutenant in Council, and an appeal to him in Council, to alter, amend, or repeal any such definition or any of such byelaws, and to make such new definitions or byelaws as they may deem expedient, and all the provisions relating to byelaws and to an appeal against the same contained in the Acts incorporated with this Act shall apply to definitions and byelaws altered, amended, repealed, or made under the provisions of this Act.
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