Orders of the Day — Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Bill. – in the House of Commons at on 27 March 1935.
Sir Smedley Crooke
, Birmingham Deritend
I beg to move, in page 1, line 6, at the beginning, to insert:
The power of the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries under.
Mr Cecil Pike
, Sheffield, Attercliffe
I beg to second the Amendment.
Further Amendment made: In page 1, line 7, leave out from "1923," to the end of the Clause, and insert:
to make orders for the regulation of fisheries shall extend to eel fisheries and elver fisheries, and accordingly the said Section shall have effect as if for the words 'or freshwater fisheries' there were therein substituted the words freshwater fisheries, eel fisheries, or elver fisheries.'"—[Mr. Smedley Crooke.]
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