Fisheries (Consolidation) Act 1959

Inquiries.

Notice of holding of inquiries.

322

322.Where notice of the holding of an inquiry is required by this Act to be given that requirement shall be complied with if not less than fourteen days before the holding of such inquiry, the following things are done—

(a) there are distributed, in such manner as the Minister may direct, printed notices announcing the time and place at which the inquiry is to be held and the matters to be inquired into thereat, and

(b) there is published in one or more newspapers circulating in the fishery district in which the inquiry is to be held an advertisement stating the time and place at which the inquiry is to be held and the matters to be inquired into thereat.

Annotations

Modifications (not altering text):

C247

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.