Sea Fisheries Act, 1931

Fish sales licences.

5.—(1) The Minister may grant a licence (in this Part of this Act referred to as a fish sales licence) to sell by auction fresh fish or to act as agent for the sale by wholesale of fresh fish or to do both those things to any person who—

(a) applies in the prescribed form and manner to the Minister for such licence, and

(b) satisfies the Minister that he is a fit and proper person to hold a fish sales licence, and

(c) is not an undischarged bankrupt, and

(d) is not employed, engaged or otherwise concerned in the sea-fishing industry.

(2) Every fish sales licence shall—

(a) be in the prescribed form, and

(b) be expressed and operate to licence the person to whom it is granted to sell by auction fresh fish and to act as agent for the sale by wholesale of fresh fish, and

(c) shall be and be expressed to be granted subject to the condition (in this Part of this Act referred to as the statutory condition) that the holder thereof shall not while such licence remains in force be concerned, save under and in accordance with such licence, either directly or indirectly in any transaction relating to the purchase or sale of fresh fish.

(3) The holding of a fish sales licence shall not relieve the holder thereof from the obligation to hold an excise licence to act as an auctioneer in any case in which he would have been subject to such obligation if this Act had not been passed.