Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 1994
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Amendment of section 234 of Principal Act. |
12.—Section 234 of the Principal Act (inserted by the Act of 1978) is hereby amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1) thereof: | |
“234.—(1) Where a sea fisheries protection officer has in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 233 detained a boat and the persons on board the boat at a port, any sea fisheries protection officer shall, as soon as may be, bring the master of the boat and any other persons on board the boat against whom proceedings for an offence under a provision of Chapter II or III of this Part have been or are about to be instituted before a judge of the District Court and thereupon the said judge shall, if he is satisfied that such proceedings have been or are about to be instituted against the master and those other persons or any one or more of them, by order directed to a sea fisheries protection officer require such officer to detain at a specified port in the State the boat and each person (including the master) aforesaid in respect of whom he is so satisfied until such proceedings have been adjudicated upon by a judge of the District Court under section 8 or 13 of the Criminal Procedure Act, 1967 , or under section 2 (2) of the Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 1978 , or otherwise in the exercise of his summary jurisdiction.”. |