Duty on licences
1(1)Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, there shall be payable in respect of a fishing licence a duty fixed in accordance with this Schedule by the water authority.
(2)The water authority may in special cases grant an exemption from the duty.
2Different duties may be fixed under paragraph 1 above for different instruments, different periods, different parts of the water authority area, different descriptions of fish and different classes of licence holder.
3A water authority shall at least one month before fixing or altering a duty for the use of any instrument in any part of their area, except a duty payable in respect of a temporary licence, publish in one or more newspapers circulating in that part of their area notice of their intention to do so.
4If during the month immediately following the publication of a notice under paragraph 3 above a written objection to the proposed duty is made to the Minister by any interested person, the water authority shall not fix or alter the duty without the approval of the Minister.
5The Minister, with or without a local inquiry, may refuse to approve any duty submitted by a water authority for his approval under paragraph 4 above or may approve the duty with or without modifications ; and the authority, if so directed by the Minister, shall cause notice of any proposed modification to be given in accordance with the direction.
6No duty fixed under the foregoing provisions of this Schedule shall take effect until the beginning of the year following that in which it is fixed or, in the case of a duty required to be approved by the Minister, in which it is approved by him.
7A water authority may grant a temporary licence, that is to say, a licence authorising the use of an instrument for fishing in circumstances specified in the licence during a period not exceeding 14 days,
and may charge in respect of that licence a duty less than the duty fixed for the use of that instrument under the foregoing provisions of this Schedule.
8There shall be payable in respect of a general licence such sum as may be agreed by the water authority and the licensee.