Fisheries (Consolidation) Act, 1959

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Penalty for scaring or obstructing free passage of salmon or trout during the weekly close time.

145.—(1) If any person scares, impedes or obstructs the free passage of salmon or trout during the weekly close time, such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine of not less than two pounds and not more than ten pounds.

(2) Where a person is convicted of an offence under this section any net or instrument used by him in the commission of the offence and any fish taken by him thereby shall, as a statutory consequence of conviction, stand forfeited.

(3) This section shall not apply to any person who takes fish lawfully by rod and line during the weekly close time.