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Fisheries (Oyster, Crab, and Lobster) Act (1877) Amendment Act 1884

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Fisheries (Oyster, Crab, and Lobster) Act (1877) Amendment Act, 1884.

(47 & 48 Vict.) CHAPTER 26.

An Act to amend the Fisheries Oyster, Crab, and Lobster) Act, 1877.

[14th July 1884]

W HEREAS in certain parts of England the taking of small edible crabs for bait for fishing is injurious to the interests of the fishermen and to the supply of edible crabs:

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:

S-1 Board of Trade may make orders.

1 Board of Trade may make orders.

1. The Board of Trade, after such local inquiry, if any, as they think expedient, may, if they think fit, by order direct that the proviso in the last paragraph of the eighth section of the Act forty and forty-one Victoria, chapter forty-two, which permits edible crabs in certain conditions or under a certain size to be taken by or to be in the possession of any person, if the said crabs were intended for bait for fishing, shall not apply within the area named in such order.

S-2 Short title.

2 Short title.

2. This Act may be cited for all purposes as theFisheries (Oyster, Crab, and Lobster) Act (1877) Amendment Act, 1884.

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