Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The [State, Government]1 may make rules for the purposes mentioned hereinafter in this section and shall under such rules declare the waters to which all or any of them shall apply. (2) The [State Government]1 may, by notification in the official Gazette apply such rules or any of them to any private waters with the consent in writing of the owner thereof and of all other persons having for the time being any exclusive right to fishery therein or if the [State Government]1 is satisfied that the consent is unreasonably withheld without such consent : Provided that no; rules made under this section shall apply to any religious waters. (3) Such rules may- (a) prohibit or regulate all or any of the following matters, that is to say- (i) the section and use of fixed engines ; (ii) the construction, temporary or permanent, of weirs, dams and bunds ; and (iii) the dimension and kind of nets and size of mesh or any other fish contrivance to be used and mode of using them; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------