Foyle Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1952

3The Foyle Area.N.I.

(1)In this Act “the Foyle Area” means the area comprising the fishery district, originally created and defined as the Londonderry District by an order made on the ninth day of July, 1855, by the Commissioners of Fisheries.

[F1(1A)In this Act “the Carlingford Area” means—

(a)the whole of the sea along the coast between the low water line of the most southerly point of Cranfield Point in the County of Down and the low water line of the most easterly point of Ballaghan Point, in the County of Louth, and within a straight line between those points, and any islands or rocks within the same, with the whole of the tideway along the said coast; and

(b)the whole of all lakes, rivers and their tributaries which flow into the sea within the area defined in paragraph (a) and all of the land catchment from which water drains into those lakes and rivers.]

(2)Judicial notice shall be taken of the boundaries of the Foyle Area[F1 and the Carlingford Area].

F1SI 1999/859