Fisheries (Consolidation) Act 1959
Penalty on giving warning to persons unlawfully fishing.
291.—Every person who makes or causes to be made or aids or assists in making any signal or warning to any person engaged in fishing unlawfully of the approach of any water keeper, officer of a board of conservators, or member of the Garda Síochána shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding five pounds.
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
C220
References to “regional board” construed (1.07.2010) as references to “IFI” by Inland Fisheries Act 2010 (10/2010), s. 8(3)(a) and sch. 2 part 1 paras. (1), (2), commenced on enactment. Note “board of conservators” previously construed (29.10.1980) as reference to “regional board”, see further E-note below.
Transfer of functions to IFI.
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(3) (a) The Acts specified in Schedule 2 are amended on the establishment day as indicated in that Schedule.
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SCHEDULE 2
Consequential Amendments of Certain Acts
Section 8
PART 1
Amendment of Fisheries (Consolidation) Act 1959
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(1) References to regional boards (as provided for by section 2 of Part 1 of the Fourth Schedule) in the provisions of the Principal Act specified in subparagraph (2) shall each be construed and have effect as if they were references to Inland Fisheries Ireland.
(2) The provisions of the Principal Act referred to in subparagraph (1) are the definition of “fishery rate” in section 3(1), sections 40(10) (as substituted by section 7 of the Act of 2000), 45(1), 49(5), 49(9), 55(2), 55(3), 55(4), 56, 57(2), 57(3), 59(1), 67(1), 67(8), 67(10), 70(2), 70(3), 77(4), 278, 291, 303(1) and 306(1).
C221
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.
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(8) This section has effect in respect of offences committed after the establishment day.
Reference Number |
Section of Principal Act |
Penalty |
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(2) |
(3) |
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17, 65, 66, 73, 91, 92, 93, 112, 113, 119, 120, 121, 122, 125, 130, 140, 141, 143, 144, 145, 146, 167, 168, 169, 178, 179, 180, 181, 253, 273, 274, 277, 285, 291. |
A fine not exceeding €2,000. |
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Editorial Notes:
E1627
Previous affecting provision: references to “board of conservators” construed (29.10.1980) as references to “regional board” by Fisheries Act 1980 (1/1980), s. 11(5) and sch. 4 part 1 paras. 2(a), (b); superseded (1.07.2010) as per C-note above.