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Penalty for placing fishing engine with intent to prevent fish entering nets lawfully set.
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288.—(1) If any person wilfully and maliciously places any fishing engine with intent to prevent fish from entering the nets of any other person set and placed in a lawful manner, such first-mentioned person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding five pounds.
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(2) Where a person is convicted of an offence under this section, any fishing engine by means of which the offence was committed shall, as a statutory consequence of conviction, stand forfeited.
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