Fisheries (Consolidation) Act, 1959

Penalties for fishing for, etc. pollen during the annual close season for pollen.

149.—(1) if any person wilfully fishes for or takes or aids or assists in taking or fishing for pollen during the annual close season for pollen, 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 twenty-five pounds, together with a further fine of two pounds for every pollen so taken by him.

(2) Where a person is convicted of an offence under this section, every pollen taken by him and the fishing engine used in the commission of the offence shall, as a statutory consequence of conviction, stand forfeited.