Tamil Nadu Inland Fisheries Lease & Licence Rules, 1972
No: 1749 Dated: Jul, 19 1972
AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT
Tamil Nadu Inland Fisheries Lease & Licence Rules, 1972
(G.O.Ms.No.1749, Agriculture, 21st June 1972)
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 6 of the Indian Fisheries Act, 1897 (Central Act 4 of 1897) and in supersession of the rules published with the late Development Noitification No.138, Dated the 16th April 1929, published at pages 746-748 of part 1 of the Fort St.George Gazette, dated the 23rd April 1929, as subsequently amended, and with the Agriculture Department Notification, dated the 14th March 1955, published at page 133 of the Rules Supplement to part 1 of the Fort St.George Gazette, dated the 27th April 1955, and with the late Development Department Notification, dated the 14th November 1950, published at the pages 491-492 of the Rules Supplement to part 1 of the Fort St.George Gazette, dated the 5 th December 1950, as subsequently amended, the Governer if Tamil Nadu hereby makes the Tamil Nadu Inland Fisheries Lease and Licence Rules, the same having been previously published for general information as required by sub-section (6) of the said Act.
RULES
1. Short title: These rules may be called the Tamil Nadu Inland Fisheries Lease and Licence Rules, 1972.
2. Prohibition of fishing without lease or licence in waters under control of Fisheries Department: No person shall take any fish from the waters specified in Annexure-1 except under a lease or licence granted by the Government or by such authority as may be authorized by them in the form and in accordance with the conditions specidied in the appendix to Annexure-1 of these rules which may be suitably modified or amended from time to time as required.
Provided that this rule shall not apply to the fishing operation of the Fisheries Department conducted under the Orders of an Officer not bellow the rank of Assistant Director of Fisheries.
3. Prohibition of fishing without a lease in other Government tanks: No person shall take any fish from any of the waters specified in Annexure II except under and in accordance with the condition of lease granted by the Government or by the local body in whom the water vests.
4. Penalty: Whoever commits a breach of rule 2 or 3 shall be punishable with the which may extend to one hundred rupee and when the breach is a continuing breach. With a further fine which may extend to ten rupees for every day, after the date of first conviction, during which the breach is proved to have been persisted in
5. Forfeiture: A Magistrate may, on the conviction of any person for the breach of these rules, Order the seizure. Forfeiture and removal of the fixed engines erected or used or nets used in contravention of these rules and also, Order the forfeiture of any fish taken by means of any such fixed engine or net.