Fisheries (Consolidation) Act 1959
Forfeitures.
Non-obligation of Court to pronounce or record forfeit are where forfeiture falls as a statutory consequence of conviction.
316.—Where—
(a) a person is convicted by a District Justice of an offence under any provision of this Act, and
(b) the said provision provides that a particular thing shall, as a statutory consequence of conviction, stand forfeited,
then, notwithstanding any rule of law, it shall not be necessary for the said Justice—
(i) to pronounce the fact of such forfeiture at the time of adjudication, or
(ii) to record the fact of such forfeiture in the Justice's Minute Book or the Charge Sheet or in the order of conviction.
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
C239
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.
2.— …
(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.