STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 981 



Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority 



of the same, as follows: 



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5. It shall not be lawful to set or shoot any herring net on any day 

 between sunrise and one hour before sunset on any day between the 

 first day of June and the first day of October, nor between sunrise on 

 Saturday morning and one hour before sunset on Monday evening, 

 on the west ccasts of Scotland between the points of Ardnamurchan 

 on the north and the Mull of Galloway on the south. 



Any person acting in contravention of this section shall be liable, 

 on conviction under the Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Acts, to 

 a fine not exceeding for the first offence five pounds, and for the 

 second or any subsequent offence twenty pounds; and every net set, 

 or attempted to be set, in contravention of this section shall be for- 

 feited, and may be seized and destroyed or otherwise disposed of by 

 any superintendent of the herring fishery or other officer employed in 

 the execution of the Herring Fishery (Scotland) Acts. 



6. (1.) It shall not be lawful to use the method of fishing known 

 as beam trawling or otter trawling within three miles of low-water 

 mark of any part of the coast of Scotland, nor within the waters 

 specified in the schedule hereto annexed, save only between such 

 points on the coast or within such other defined areas as may from 

 time to time be permitted by byelaws of the Fishery Board for Scot- 

 land, and subject to any conditions or regulations made by those bye- 

 laws. Provided that this section shall not apply to the Solway Firth 

 nor to the Pentland Firth; and provided also, that nothing herein 

 contained shall affect the powers of the Fishery Board under section 

 four of the Sea Fisheries (Scotland) Amendment Act, 1885. 



(2.) The Fishery Board may from time to time make, alter, and 

 revoke byelaws for the purposes of this section, but a byelaw shall 

 not be of any validity until it is confirmed by the Secretary for 

 Scotland. 



(3.) Any person who uses any method of fishing in contravention 

 of this enactment or of any byelaw of the Fishery Board, shall be 

 liable, on conviction under the Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) 

 Acts, to a fine not exceeding five pounds for the first offence, and not 

 exceeding twenty pounds for the second or any subsequent offence; 

 and every net set, or attempted to be set, in contravention of this sec- 

 tion shall be forfeited, and may be seized and destro}^ed or otherwise 

 disposed of by any superintendent of the herring fishery or other 

 officers employed in the execution of the Herring Fishery (Scotland) 

 Acts. 



7. (1.) The Fishery Board may, by byelaw or byelaws, direct that 

 the methods of fishing known as beam trawling and otter trawling 

 shall not be used within a line drawn from Duncansby Head, in 

 Caithness, to Rattray Point, in Aberdeenshire, in any area or areas 

 to be defined in such byelaw, and may from time to time make, alter, 

 and revoke byelaws for the purposes of this section, but no such bye- 

 law shall be of any validity until it has been confirmed by the Secre- 

 tary for Scotland. 



(2.) Any person who uses any such method of fishing in contra- 

 vention of any such byelaw shall be liable, on conviction under the 

 Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Acts, to a fine not exceeding five 

 pounds for the first offence, and not exceeding twenty pounds for the 

 second or any subsequent offence; and every net set. or attempted to 

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