APPENDIX B 103 



PART III. 

 Oyster Fisheries. 



Preliminary. 



27. This part of this Act shall not interfere with the Part iii. not 

 jurisdiction or powers now possessed by the Irish Fishery jUa^ce? herdn 

 Commissioners with regard to oyster fisheries, and shall s'^t^'^- 



not apply to Ireland, the Isle of Man, or the Islands of 

 Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, or Sark, or their dependencies, 

 or to the seas adjoining the same, within the exclusive 

 fishery limits of the British islands, or to any seas outside 

 of those exclusive fishery limits. 



28. In this part of this Act the words ' oysters ' and interpreta- 



. . , -■ i 1 -I 1 1 r tion of cer- 



' mussels ' respectively mclude the brood, ware, half-ware, tain terms, 

 spat, and spawn of oysters and mussels respectively. 



In this part of the Act the expression 'oyster and mussel 

 fishery' includes a fishery for either oysters or mussels 

 separately, and the term ' oyster or mussel fishery' includes 

 a fishery for both oysters and mussels ; and the provisions 

 of this part of this Act shall be construed to apply in the 

 case of any fishery to oysters and oyster ground and beds 

 alone, or to mussels and mussel ground and beds alone, or 

 to both oysters and mussels and oyster and mussel ground 

 and beds, according as the right of fishery is for oysters 

 alone, or for mussels alone, or for both oysters and mussels. 



Order for Fishery. 



29. An Order for the establishment or improvement, and Power to 

 for the maintenance and regulation, of an oyster and mussel ^J^J^ ^^ 

 fishery on the shore and bed of the sea, or of an estuary or JJ^J'°^^Jj^° 

 tidal river, above or below, or partly above and partly below for oyster 

 low-water mark (which shore and bed are in this part of fishery. 

 this Act referred to as the sea-shore), and including, if 

 desirable, provisions for the constitution of a board or body 

 corporate for the purpose of such Order, may be made 



under this part of this Act, on an application by a memorial 

 in that behalf presented to the Board of Trade by any 



