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1. No person shall—
(b) at any time place upon any dam or other obstruction any basket, trap,
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or device for taking fish, except wheels or leaps for taking lamperns between the first day of August and the first day of March following.
§ 2. If any person contravenes this Section he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.
§ 3. Nothing in this Section shall extend to prohibit the use of eel baskets not exceeding in any part ten inches in diameter, constructed so as to be fished with bait, and not used at a dam or other obstruction or in any conduit or artificial channel by which water is deviated from a river.
§ Amendments made: In Sub-section (1, b), leave out the words "any dam or other obstruction", and insert instead thereof the words "the apron of any weir".
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At end of Sub-section (3) insert the words
or any device for taking eels in such place, during such time, and subject to such conditions as may be authorised by the fishery board with the consent of the Minister or, where there is no fishery board, by the Minister."—[Sir R. Sanders.]