Fisheries Act, 1939

Recovery of fishery rates.

22.—Whenever any person (in this section referred to as the rated person) rated in respect of a fishery for fishery rate fails to pay a moiety of such fishery rate within one month after the day on which such moiety is required by sub-section (5) of section 13 of the Fisheries Act, 1925 (No. 32 of 1925), to be paid, such moiety shall be recoverable (at the option of the person entitled by law to collect and recover the same) from the rated person or from any person who, when such fishery rate was made or at any subsequent time, held, used, or occupied the said fishery, and if such last-mentioned person is a tenant of the rated person, he may, unless the contract of tenancy provide for the payment of fishery rate by the tenant, deduct the amount of any fishery rate so recovered from him from any rent payable to the rated person.

Protection of Fisheries.