Fisheries (Consolidation) Act 1959

Evidence.

Evidence of amount of expenses incurred by the Minister.

320

320.Where the Minister is entitled under section 99, 110, 112, 113, 114, 116, 117 or 129 to recover any expenses a certificate sealed with the official seal of the Minister and certifying the amount of those expenses shall be prima facie evidence of the amount of those expenses.

Annotations

Modifications (not altering text):

C245

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.