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STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND

2006 No. 517

FISHERIES

Fisheries (Amendment) Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2006

  Made 13th December 2006 
  Coming into operation 1st January 2007 

The Fisheries Conservancy Board for Northern Ireland, makes the following Byelaws, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 26(1), 37, 51(2), 52(2), 70(1) and (2), 71(2)(g), 72(1), 89, 95, 97, 114(1)(b) and 115(1)(b) of the Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966[1], and with the approval of the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure[2]:

Citation and commencement
     1. These Byelaws may be cited as the Fisheries (Amendment) Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2006 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2007.

Amendment of the Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2003
     2. The Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2003[3] shall be amended as provided in Byelaws 3 and 4.

Licence duties and fees
     3. For Schedule 3 (FISHING ENGINES AND LICENCE DUTIES) there shall be substituted the following Schedule:




List of waters where there is no close season for rainbow trout
     4. In Schedule 6 in the list of rainbow trout waters where there is no annual close season for angling for rainbow trout —



Sealed with the Official Seal of the Fisheries Conservancy Board on


13th December 2006.

L.S.


Dr. R. Hanna
Chairman

K. A. Simpson (Mrs)
Secretary


The Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure hereby approves the foregoing Byelaws.



Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure on


13th December 2006.

L.S.


M. Cory
A senior officer of the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Byelaws)


These Byelaws amend the Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2003.

The principal changes are as follows:–

1.The Byelaws increase the licence duties payable from 1st January 2007 for some fishing rod licences and some commercial fishing engines used for the taking of salmon and freshwater fish other than eels, together with the fee payable for a licence which authorises the holder to buy and sell salmon, trout and eels (Byelaw 3).

The new licence fee rates for 2007, and the size of the increases are set out below:–

           Previous

Rate

 New

Rate

 Increase
           £ £ £
Season game fishing rod licence 16.00 16.00 0.00
Fourteen day game fishing rod licence 8.00 8.00 0.00
Three day game fishing rod licence 3.50 3.50 0.00
Concessionary season fishing rod licence 5.00 5.00 0.00
Juvenile season fishing rod licence 2.00 2.00 0.00
Amount payable by the holder of a current Foyle, Carlingford

and Irish Lights game fishing rod and line licence for a game fishing rod licence

 1.00 1.00 0.00
Season coarse fishing rod licence 16.00 16.00 0.00
Fourteen day coarse fishing rod licence 8.00 8.00 0.00
Three day coarse fishing rod licence for use by the holder of a

three day coarse fishing permit issued by the Department of

Culture, Arts and Leisure to fish in waters in which the Department has the fishing rights.

 3.50 3.50 0.00
Licence for a draft net for the capture of salmon and freshwater fish on Lough Neagh 117.00 119.50 2.50
Licence for a single wall set net or trammel net for the capture of trout or rainbow trout in Lough Neagh per 91 metres (100 yards) 16.00 16.00 0.00
Licence for a single wall set net or trammel net for the taking of freshwater fish other than trout or rainbow trout per 91 metres (100 yards) 16.00 16.00 0.00
Licence for a bait net for the taking of freshwater fish other than trout or rainbow trout for use as bait – per net 5.00 5.00 0.00
Licence for a fixed tidal draft net 370.50 378.50 8.00
Licence for a tidal draft net 307.00 314.00 7.00
           Previous

Rate

 New

Rate

 Increase
           £ £ £
Drift net licence for the taking of salmon in the sea 307.00 314.00 7.00
Licence for a bag net used in tidal waters 694.00 709.00 15.00
Dealer's licence 45.50 46.50 1.00

2.The Byelaws designate a number of waters as rainbow trout waters for the purposes of Byelaw 73(2)(b) of the Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2003 which provides that there shall be no close season for angling for rainbow trout in waters so designated (Byelaw 4).

Notes:

 [1] 1966 c. 17 (N.I.); section 26(1) was amended by Article 8 (3) of the Fisheries (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (S.I.1991/1466 (N.I. 13)) and by section 5 of the Fisheries (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (2001 c. 4 (N.I)); section 37 was substituted by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Fisheries (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 (1968 c. 31 (N.I.)) and was amended by Article 9 of the Fisheries (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 and by section 6 of the Fisheries (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2001; sections 51(2), 52(2) and 72(1) were amended by S.R. 1983 No. 100; sections 114(1) (b) and 115 (1)(b) were amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to the Fisheries (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1991back

[2] Functions transferred by virtue of S.R. 1999 No. 481 Article 3 and Schedule 1back

[3] S.R. 2003 No. 525 as amended by S.R. 2004 No. 504 and by S.R. 2005 No. 548back


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 © Crown copyright 2006

Prepared 5 January 2007

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