INDIAN FISHERIES (TAMIL NADU AMENDMENT) ACT, 1927
(Tamil Nadu Act 2 of 1929)
Received the assent of the Governor on the 2nd November 3 928, and that of the Governor-General on the 2nd December 1928; the assent of the Governor-General was first published in the Fort St. George Gazette dated 1st January 1929.
An Act to amend the Indian Fisheries Act,1897, in its application to the [State of Tamil Nadu.]
Whereas it is expedient to amend the Indian Fisheries Act, 1897, in its application to the [State of Tamil Nadu] for the purposes hereinafter appearing;
And Whereas the previous sanction of the Governor-General has been obtained to the passing of this Act; It is hereby enacted as follows:-
1. Short title and extent. - (1) This Act may be called the Indian Fisheries [Tamil Nadu] Amendment) Act, 1927.
(2) It extends to the whole of the [State of Tamil Nadu].
2. Amendment of section 6, Central Act IV of 1987. - In sub-section (3) of section 6 of the Indian Fisheries Act, 1897 (hereinafter referred to as the said Act),-
(i) after the words "prohibit or regulate" the words "either permanently or for a time or for specified seasons only" shall be inserted; and
(ii) for clause (c), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:-
"(c) the dimension and kind of the contrivances to be used for taking fish generally or any specified kind of fish and the modes of using such contrivances".
3. Amendment of section 6, Central Act IV of 1897. - For sub-section (4) of section 6 of the said Act, the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely:-
"(4) Such rules may also prohibit all fishing in any specified water except under a lease or licence granted by Government and in accordance with such conditions as maybe specified in such lease or licence:
Provided that no rule shall be made under this sub-section to prohibit sea fishery other than pearl fishery or chank fishery unless, after previous publication under sub-section (6) of this section, it has been laid in draft before [both the [Houses] of the [State] Legislature], and has been approved by a resolution [of both those [Houses]] either with or without modification or addition; but upon such approval being given, the rule may be issued in the form in which it has been so approved."
4. Addition of new section 8 to Central Act IV of 1897. - After section 7 of the said Act, the following section shall be added, namely:-
"8. Recovery of rents, fees and other moneys payable to Government. - All rents, fees and other moneys payable to Government on account of fishery leases and licences granted by them may be recovered in like manner as if they were arrears of land revenue."
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