Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2003

General

4.—(1) Subject to Byelaw 24, the Board may issue a fishing licence authorising any person to fish for, take and kill –

(a)salmon, freshwater fish and eels;

(b)eels and coarse fish;

(c)salmon; or

(d)eels.

(2) A licence issued under paragraph (1) may authorise the holder to fish for, take and kill the fish to which the licence relates by means of –

(a)any fishing engine;

(b)a rod and line or hand line;

(c)a bait net;

(d)a draft net;

(e)a drift net;

(f)a fixed tidal draft net;

(g)a single wall set net;

(h)a tidal draft net; or

(i)a trammel net.

(3) A licence issued under paragraph (1) may authorise the holder to fish for, take and kill the fish to which the licence relates in –

(a)fresh water;

(b)the sea and tidal waters; or

(c)both.

(4) A licence issued under paragraph (1) shall have effect for –

(a)the calendar year of issue;

(b)fourteen days; or

(c)three days.

(5) A licence issued under paragraph (1) shall be subject to the following conditions –

(a)the licence is valid only if signed by the distributor and, in the case of an angling licence, the licence-holder;

(b)the licence is valid only if the actual date and time that the licence is issued are entered thereon;

(c)the licence is valid only if the surname and all forenames of the licence-holder are entered thereon;

(d)the licence is issued subject to the provisions contained in the Act and in Byelaws made under the Act.

(6) Paragraph (5)(a), in so far as it requires the signature of a distributor, shall not apply in the case of a concessionary season fishing rod licence licence issued to a disabled angler.

(7) A licence issued under paragraph (1) for angling shall be in the form set out in Schedule 1, and a licence issued under paragraph (1) for commercial fishing shall be in the form set out in Schedule 2.

(8) A licence issued under paragraph (1) may be altered at any time by the Board by notice served in writing on the holder.

(9) Subject to Byelaw 24, a licence issued under paragraph (1) may be renewed on application made to the Board.