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Penalties for buying, etc. pollen during the annual close season for pollen.
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150.—(1) If any person buys, sells, exposes for sale, or has in his custody or possession any pollen taken from any waters, during the period which is, in relation to those waters, 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 such pollen so bought, sold or exposed for sale by him or so in his custody or possession.
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(2) Where a person is convicted of an offence under this section, every pollen in respect of which the offence was committed shall, as a statutory consequence of conviction, stand forfeited.
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(3) In any proceedings under subsection (1) of this section, proof that a person bought, sold or exposed for sale or had in his custody or possession any pollen during the period which is, in relation to any waters, the annual close season for pollen shall be prima facie evidence that such pollen was taken during the period which is the annual close season for pollen in the waters from or in which such pollen may have been taken.
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