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Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2003

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Issue of tidal draft net licences

23.—(1) The maximum number of tidal draft net licences issued in any calendar year shall not exceed 2.

(2) An application for such a licence shall be received on or before 1st March in the calendar year to which the licence is to relate.

(3) Where an application for a tidal draft net licence is received from a person to whom such a licence was issued at any time during the period of 3 years ending on the last 31st December before the date of the receipt of the application, such an application shall, subject to paragraph (5), be deemed to have been received before an application received from any other person.

(4) Where the number of applications for tidal draft net licences received on or before 1st March in any calendar year exceeds 2, the licences shall, subject to paragraphs (3) and (5), be issued according to the order in which applications for those licences were received.

(5) Paragraphs (3) and (4) shall not apply to, or in relation to, an application from a person who has undertaken, in consideration of compensation paid or payable by the Department, to make no further applications for a fishing licence to use a tidal draft net to fish for salmon.

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