Section 4 Punishment for violation of Articles 13 to 22 of Convention, and for other offences.
United Kingdom
If within F1British fishery limits any person, or if outside those limits any person belonging to a British sea-fishing boat,
acts in contravention of Articles thirteen to twenty-two (both inclusive) of the first schedule to this Act, or any of them; or
causes injury to any person in any one or more of the following ways, namely, by assaulting anyone belonging to another sea-fishing boat, or by causing damage to another sea-fishing boat, or to any property on board thereof, or belonging thereto; or
fishes for oysters or has on board his boat any oyster dredge within any seas and during any time within and during which oyster fishing is prohibited by law, or by any convention, treaty, or arrangement to which this Act may be hereafter applied;
such person shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding F2fifty poundslevel 3 on the standard scale, or, in the discretion of the court, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, . . . F3
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words substituted by Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c. 86), Sch. 2 para. 5
- F2
Words “level 3 on the standard scale” substituted for words “fifty pounds” (E.W.S.) by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G
- F3
Words omitted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1948 (c. 58), s. 1(2) and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21), s. 221(2) and repealed (N.I.) by Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1953 (c. 14), s. 1(2)
Notes on the whole Act
Textual amendments
- F1
Act repealed (19.11.1998) by 1998 c. 43, s. 1(1)(2), Sch. 1 Pt. X, Group 2 (with saving in Sch. 2 para. 8) and subject to amendments by S.I. 1999/1820, arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 5