# Sea Fisheries Act 1883 (repealed 19.11.1998), Section 5: Punishment for violation of Article 23 of Convention.

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

If within the British 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 fifty poundslevel 3 on the standard scale, or in the discretion of the court to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, . . . , and the instrument shall be liable to be forfeited.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/46-47/22/section/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fisheries-act-1883-repealed-19111998/section-5
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