29.— Where a person is convicted by a court of an offence specified in a Table F5 [ or under section 28(1A) ] and any fishing gear or fish under section 28 is, as a statutory consequence of the conviction, forfeited, then, notwithstanding any rule of law, it is not necessary for the court—

( a) to pronounce the fact of such forfeiture at the time of adjudication, or

( b) to record the fact of such forfeiture in the judge’s minute book, the charge sheet or in the order of conviction.