Fisheries (Consolidation) Act 1959

Bounds need not be set out in indictments, etc.

313

313.In any action or prosecution for or in respect of any trespass or nuisance in respect of a fishery it shall not be necessary to set out in the declaration or indictment the bounds of the place in which the trespass or nuisance complained of was committed, but it shall be sufficient to state generally that the same was committed within the fishery district in which the fishery in question is situate.

Annotations

Modifications (not altering text):

C235

Section applied with modifications and references to "penalty" and “the forfeiture” construed (4.07.1978) by Fisheries (Amendment) Act 1978 (18/1978), s. 2(5)(b), commenced on enactment.

Indictable and summary proceedings for certain offences.

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(5) …

(b) Part XIX of the Principal Act shall apply to the fines and forfeitures provided for by this section and the Tables to this section as it applies to the fines and forfeitures referred to in that Part and references in sections 316 and 317 of the Principal Act to a District Justice and the District Court shall, in the case of a conviction by a court other than the District Court, be construed as references to that other court.