White Fish and Herring Industries Act 1957
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1957 c. 22 |
| Year | 1957 |
White Fish and Herring Industries Act , 1957
(5 & 6 Eliz. 2) 22
An Act to amend the provisions of the White Fish and Herring Industries Act, 1953, relating to grants by the White Fish Authority and the Herring Industry Board towards new vessels and engines and to the white fish subsidy; to provide a subsidy in respect of herring; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
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 Extension of scope of grants under ss. 1 and 6 of 1 & 2 Eliz. 2. c. 17.
(1) Subsection (1) of section one of the White Fish and Herring Industries Act, 1953 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the principal Act’) and subsection (1) of section six of that Act (which respectively empower the White Fish Authority to make to persons engaged or proposing to become engaged in the white fish industry grants in respect of expenditure incurred in the acquisition of new fishing vessels not exceeding one hundred and forty feet in length or the acquisition of new engines for fishing vessels not exceeding one hundred and forty feet in length and the Herring Industry Board to make to persons engaged or proposing to become engaged in the herring industry grants in respect of the like expenditure) shall each have effect as if the reference to expenditure incurred as aforesaid included a reference to expenditure incurred in the conversion, from coal-firing to oil-firing, of the engine-boilers of any fishing vessel not exceeding one hundred and forty feet in length, where the contract for the execution of the work of conversion is shown to the satisfaction of the authority empowered to make the grants to have been made after the appointed day.
(2) No grant shall be made in pursuance of a scheme under section one or six of the principal Act in respect of expenditure incurred in the acquisition of a vessel unless an application for the grant is approved by the Authority or the Board, as the case may be, before the expiration of the period of ten years beginning with the date of the passing of that Act; no grant in respect of expenditure incurred in the acquisition of an engine for a vessel shall be so made otherwise than to an individual who satisfies the Authority or the Board, as the case may be, that he is or is to be a working owner of the vessel unless—
(a ) an application for the grant is approved by the Authority or the Board in accordance with the scheme before the end of March, nineteen hundred and sixty-one; and
(b ) the operation of the engine does not involve the consumption of coal and the engine is installed in place of one whose operation did involve the consumption of coal;
no grant in respect of expenditure incurred in the acquisition of an engine for a vessel shall be made in pursuance of such a scheme to such an individual as aforesaid unless an application for the grant is approved by the Authority or the Board, as the case may be, in accordance with the scheme before the expiration of the said period of ten years; and no grant in respect of expenditure incurred in the conversion, from coal-firing to oil-firing, of the engine-boilers of a vessel shall be made in pursuance of such a scheme unless an application for the grant is approved by the Authority or the Board, as the case may be, in accordance with the scheme before the end of March, nineteen hundred and sixty-one.
(3) The amount of a grant which may be made in pursuance of a scheme under section one or six of the principal Act in respect of expenditure incurred in the acquisition of a vessel or in the acquisition of an engine for a vessel shall not exceed the following amount, that is to say:—
(a ) where the grant is made to an individual who satisfies the Authority or the Board, as the case may be, that he is or is to be a working owner of the vessel, three tenths of the said expenditure;
(b ) in any other case, one quarter of the said expenditure;
and the amount of a grant which may be so made in respect of expenditure incurred in the conversion, from coal-firing to oil-firing, of the engine-boilers of a vessel shall not exceed one quarter of the said expenditure.
(4) Any reference in the principal Act or this section to expenditure incurred in the acquisition of a new engine for a vessel shall, where—
(a ) the engine is installed in place of one which furnished motive power to other machinery of the vessel but is itself not designed to furnish motive power to that other machinery; and
(b ) the Authority or the Board, as the case may be, are satisfied that the contract for the supply of the engine was made after the appointed day;
be construed as including a reference to expenditure incurred in carrying out such work for the provision of motive power to that other machinery as is necessitated by the change of engine.
(5) Subsections (2) and (3) of this section shall have effect in lieu of so much of subsection...
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