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(2) To determine the mesh size and description of nets and 

 to regulate the use of nets engines trimmers liggers or 

 instruments of any kind for the purpose of taking fish within 

 the limits of this Act. The Board may take any byelaw to 

 apply to the whole or to any part or parts of the said 

 navigable rivers and broads. 



12. Any byelaws made in pursuance of this Act shall come into 

 force only when the following conditions have been complied with 



(1) They shall have been advertised as proposed byelaws in one 

 or more newspapers generally circulating in each of the 

 Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. 



(2) They shall after the expiration of one month after such 

 advertisement have been approved by one of Her Majesty's 

 Principal Secretaries of State. 



Provided always that all byelaws made in pursuance of this Act 

 shall be advertised as approved byelaws in one or more newspapers 

 generally circulating in each of the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk 

 and shall be further published in such manner as the Board shall 

 think fit and the production of a written or printed copy of any 

 byelaws purporting to have been made by the Board and approved 

 by a Secretary of State shall in any legal proceedings be taken to 

 be proof of the due making allowing publication and existence of 

 such byelaws until the contrary be shewn. 



13. Any person acting or attempting to act in contravention of 

 any byelaw made in pursuance of this Act for each such offence shall 

 incur a penalty of not exceeding ten pounds in addition to the 

 forfeiture of nets or instruments used in contravention of such 

 byelaw. 



14. Any Officer of the Conservators or any Police Constable or 

 other Officer may within the limits of this Act stop and search any 

 wherry or boat in which he shall have reasonable grounds for 

 believing there are any fish taken or any nets engines trimmers 

 liggers or other instruments used or intended to be used for the 

 taking of fish within such limits in contravention of any such 

 byelaw and if he shall find any person using or attempting to use 

 or having used any such nets or other things within such limits in 

 contravention of any such byelaw he may seize and detain the same 

 and he shall in such case forthwith apply to some Justice of the 

 Peace for a Summons citing the person in charge of such wherry or 

 boat or in possession or use of any such fish nets or other things 

 to appear before two Justices who shall inquire and determine 

 whether such person has incurred any penalty under this Act and 

 in the event of the Justices finding that he has incurred any such 

 penalty they may determine in addition to such penalty that all or 

 any such fish nets and other things shall be forfeited. 



15. Any person refusing to allow any such w r herry or boat to be 

 stopped and searched as in the last preceding section provided or 



