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Section 5 Punishment for violation of Article 23 of Convention.

United Kingdom

If within the F1British fishery limits, any person, or if outside those limits any person belonging to a British sea-fishing boat,

(a)

Uses any instrument for the purpose of damaging or destroying, by cutting or otherwise, any fishing implement belonging to another sea-fishing boat, except in the cases provided for by Articles twenty and twenty-one of the first schedule to this Act; or,

(b)

Takes on board or has on board such boat any instrument serving only or intended to damage or destroy fishing implements, by cutting or otherwise;

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, and the instrument shall be liable to be forfeited.

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Criminal Justice Act 1948 (c. 58), s. 1(2) and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21), s. 221(2) and repealed (N.I.) by Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1953 (c. 14), s. 1(2)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Act repealed (19.11.1998) by 1998 c. 43, s. 1(1)(2), Sch. 1 Pt.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