FOYLE FISHERIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1952

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FOYLE FISHERIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1952 - SECT 2

Interpretation.

2.(1) In this Act

"the Advisory Council" means the Advisory Council for the Foyle Area
established under section twenty-one;

"authorised person" has the meaning given to it by section fifty-three;

"the Commission" means the Foyle Fisheries Commission established by section
eleven;

["deleterious matter" means any substance (including an explosive) the entry
or discharge of which into any waters is liable to render those or any other
waters poisonous or injurious to fish, spawning grounds or the food of any
fish or to injure fish in their value as human food or to impair the
usefulness of the bed and soil of any waters as spawning grounds or their
capacity to produce the food of fish;]

"establishment date" means the date appointed by order made under section ten;

["fish" includes spawn and fry;

"the Fisheries Acts" means [the Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 as
amended by any subsequent enactment];

"fishery rate" means a rate under section twenty-two;

"fishery year" means the period of twelve months commencing on the first day
of October in any year;

"fishing engine" means any engine, net or instrument whatsoever capable of
being used for the taking of fish;

"fishing licence" means a licence issued by the Commission under regulations
made by the Commission under this Act;

"the Foyle Area" has the meaning given to it by section three;

"inquiry" means an inquiry conducted under section eighty;

"the Irish Society" means the body entitled the Society of the Governor and
Assistants, London, of the New Plantation of Ulster within the Realm of
Ireland;

"the Londonderry Area" means the area which was constituted by the Fishery
Districts (Northern Ireland) Order, 1925, as the Londonderry District;

"the Londonderry Board" means the board of conservators for the said
Londonderry District;

"the Minister" means the Minister for Agriculture of the Republic of Ireland;

"the Ministry" means the Ministry of Commerce;

"prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made by the Commission under
this Act;

"river" includes lake and estuary;

"salmon" includes sea trout, all fish of the salmon species, and the spawn and
fry thereof;

["substance" includes any liquid or gas;]

"trout" includes all fish of the brown trout kind and their spawn and fry but
does not include sea trout;

Definition rep. by 1981 NI 7 art.10(4) sch. 5

["waters" includes any river, watercourse or part of the sea.]

(2) References in this Act to a fish shall be construed as including
references to part of a fish.

Subs.(3)(5) rep. by SLR 1976

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FOYLE FISHERIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1952 - SECT 2