Fisheries Act, 1924

Penalties to be substitutional, and existing powers to apply.

9.—(1) Every penalty or punishment imposed by this Act shall be in substitution for any penalty or punishment imposed by the Fisheries (Ireland) Acts, 1842 to 1909, for the same or a like offence.

(2) For the purposes of enforcing the provisions of this Act, all men of the Gárda Síochána and all other persons appointed to carry out and enforce the provisions of the Fisheries (Ireland) Acts, 1842 to 1909, shall in relation to the several offences for which punishments are prescribed by this Act have the like powers as they now have under the Acts aforesaid in relation to the same or like offences for which punishments are prescribed by those Acts.