section 5
Power to prescribe rules for the regulation and control of fishing.
The Nilgiris Game and Fish Preservation Act, 1879General187910 sections
Statutory text
It shall be lawful for the State Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, from time to time, to make rules for the regulation and control of fishing in any stream or lake within the said district; and such rules may, with the view to protect acclimatised fish which may be believed to be there or may be hereafter introduced therein, prohibit or regulate the poisoning of the waters of any stream or lake, the throwing of any deleterious matter therein, the use of fixed engines for the capture of fish in any stream, and the use of nets of a mesh below a certain size to be defined in such rules for the capture of fish in such stream or lake.
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