Net-fishing in Port Hacking Prohibition Act of 1886 No 11a (NSW)

No. VI.

An Act to prohibit Net-fisliing in the Waters po™!™''

of Port Hacking’. [13̂ /̂ August, 1886,] pbo™ on .

TX T HERE AS it is expedient that Net-fisliing of every kind should Preamble.

\ T he prohibited in the waters of Port Hacking Pe it therefore

enacted hy the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty hy and with the advice and consent of tlie Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and hy the authority of the same as follows :—

1 . Notwithstanding anything ill the “ Eisheries Act of 1 8 8 1 ” Port Hacking closed

or any other Act or any license granted or proclamation issued under

net-fishmg.

any such Act no person shall cast or set any net of any kind what- socv('r in any place westward of a straight lino drawn from the north to the south head of the inlet in the county of Cumberland known as Port Hacking for the purpose of catching or adapted to catch or capable of catching fish and ^vhether within the waters of the said inlet subject to or beyond the influence of the tide; Any person who casts or sets any such net contrary to the provisions of this Act shall incur a penalty not exceeding ten pounds for the first offence and for the second or any subsequent offence not less than five pounds nor more than Lventy pounds recoverable in a summary way before any Lvo Justices of the Peace And every such net and all lines leads corks and gear connected therewith shall he forfeited to Her Alajesty upon conviction of the offender.

2. Nothing in this Act shall he construed to prevent any person Act not to prcTont

from fishing within the tidal waters of Port Hacking with a hand i™e-fisiiing.

line or a rod and line.

3. This Act m a y he cited as the “ Net-fishing in Port Hacking short title.

Prohibition Act of 1880.”

No. VII.