Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 1962

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Amendment of section 166 of Principal Act.

17.—(1) Section 166 (which provides a penalty for using certain instruments for taking fish) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by—

(a) the insertion in subsection (1) after “strokehaul,” of “snare, tailer,”, and

(b) the insertion in paragraph (a) of subsection (3) before “gaff” of “tailer or”.

(2) Where a person is charged with an offence under the said section 166 in relation to an instrument to which that section applies found on his person, in a boat or vehicle belonging to, or on any lands, tenements or hereditaments occupied by, him, he shall (unless he satisfies the Court that, without his knowledge or consent, another person put the instrument in the place where it was found) be deemed, for the purposes of the said section 166, to have the instrument in his possession or control