Updated to 23 October 2025
			(Act No. 10 of 2025 and S.I. No. 506 of 2025)
			
	
		
		
		Contents
		
		
		Commencement
		
            
            
                | Section | 
                Commencement/Effective Date 
                    Where the commencement and effective dates differ, the effective date is shown below. 
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                Commencement Information | 
            
            
			
			
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						Whole Act | 
					
						4 July 1978 | 
					Commenced on enactment | 
				
			
		
		
		Amendments and other effects
		
			
				
					| How Affected | 
					Affecting Provision | 
					
			
			
			
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						Repealed | 
					8/2006, s. 4 (1) and sch. 1. See also s. 4(2). | 
					
			
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						S. 2 am. | 
					8/2006, s. 39 (3) | 
					
			
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						S.2 (2) (3), am. | 
					1/1980, s.75 | 
					
			
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						S.2, table 1, ref. no. 4 substit. | 
					23/1994, ss. 1 (2), 16 (a) | 
					
			
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					21/2003, s.30 (1) | 
					
			
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						S.2, tables 1, 2 am. | 
					24/1983, s.6 | 
					
			
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						S.2, table 2, ref. no. 4 substit. | 
					23/1994, ss. 1 (2), 16 (b) | 
					
			
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						S.4, s. | 
					24/1983, s.7 | 
					
			
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					23/1994, ss. 1 (2), 14 | 
					
			
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						S.4 (1) am. | 
					21/2003, s.28 | 
					
			
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						S. 18 application restricted | 
					8/2006, s. 39(3) | 
					
			
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						S.19 (1) am. | 
					1/1980, s.75 | 
					
			
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						S. 221 DPP prosecution of sea-fisheries offences and saver | 
					8/2006, s. 39 | 
					
			
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						S. 222 DPP prosecution of sea-fisheries offences and saver | 
					8/2006, s. 39 | 
					
			
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						S. 222A DPP prosecution of sea-fisheries offences and saver | 
					8/2006, s. 39 | 
					
			
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						S. 223 DPP prosecution of sea-fisheries offences and saver | 
					8/2006, s. 39 | 
					
			
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						S. 223A DPP prosecution of sea-fisheries offences and saver | 
					8/2006, s. 39 | 
					
			
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						S. 226 DPP prosecution of sea-fisheries offences and saver | 
					8/2006, s. 39 | 
					
			
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						S. 227 DPP prosecution of sea-fisheries offences and saver | 
					8/2006, s. 39 | 
					
			
		
		
		SIs made under the Act
		
			| Section | SIs made under the Act | 
			
			
					| 
						S. 223A | 
					Monkfish (Restriction on Fishing) (No. 4) Order, 1998. (S.I. No. 219 of 1998) | 
				
			
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					Hake (Restriction on Fishing) (No. 4) Order, 1998. (S.I. No. 218 of 1998) | 
				
			
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					Monkfish (Restriction on Fishing) (No. 5) Order, 1998. (S.I. No. 217 of 1998) |