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 1897.] by reason only that other persons may have by custom a right of fishery therein.

If any person uses any dynamite or other explosive substance in any water with intent thereby to catch or destroy any of the fish that may be therein, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two months, or with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees.

In sub-section (1) the word "water" includes the sea within a distance of one marine league of the sea-coast : and an offence committed under that sub-section in such sea may be tried, punished and in all respects dealt with as if it had been committed on the Jand abutting on such coast.

If any person puts any poison, lime or noxious material into any water with intent thereby to catch or destroy any fish, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two months, or with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees.

The Local Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, suspend the operation of this section in any specified area, and may in like manner modify or cancel any such notification.

The Local Government may make rules for the purposes hereinafter in this section mentioned, and may by a notification in the official Gazette apply all or any of such rules to such waters, not being private waters, as the Local Government may specify in the said notification.

The Local Government may also, by a like notification, apply such rules or any of them to any private water with the consent in writing of the owner thereof and of all persons having for the time being any exclusive right of fishery therein.

Such rules may prohibit or regulate all or any of the following matters, that is to say:

(a) the erection and use of fixed engines;