Fisheries (Consolidation) Act 1959

Penalty for chasing, etc., spawning fish.

174

174.(1) If any person chases, injures or disturbs spawning fish or fish on the spawning beds or attempts (except by means of lawful angling with rod and line) to catch fish thereon, such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.

(2) Where a person is convicted of an offence under this section, any engine used in the commission of the offence shall, as a statutory consequence of conviction, stand forfeited.

Annotations

Modifications (not altering text):

C137

Penalties under section altered (1.07.2010) by Inland Fisheries Act 2010 (10/2010), s. 77(1), (8) and table part 1, S.I. No. 262 of 2010. Note that the full history of the alteration of penalties under this section can be found in the annotations at the beginning of the Act under “Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows”.

A fine of €2,000 translates into a class C fine, not greater than €2,500, as provided (4.01.2011) by Fines Act 2010 (8/2010), ss. 3, 6(2) and table ref. no. 1, S.I. No. 662 of 2010.

Alteration of certain penalties under the Principal Act, the Act of 1962 or the Act of 1994.

77.— (1) A person convicted by the District Court of an offence for which a penalty is provided in any section of the Principal Act specified in column (2) of Part 1 of the Table to this section at any reference number shall, in lieu of so much of the penalty so provided as consists of a fine, imprisonment, a fine or imprisonment, or a fine and imprisonment, be liable to the appropriate penalty specified in column (3) of that Part at that reference number, and that section shall be read and have effect accordingly.

(8) This section has effect in respect of offences committed after the establishment day.

Reference Number

Section of Principal Act

Penalty

(1)

(2)

(3)

11.

95, 96, 97, 99, 102, 103, 104, 107, 110, 114, 116, 131, 132, 164, 165, 166, 170, 173, 174, 285A, 301, 308.

A fine not exceeding €2,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or both.