Fisheries (Consolidation) Act, 1959

Payments to boards of conservators and (in certain cases) Garda Síochána Reward Fund in respect of fines for certain offences.

315.—(1) This section applies to—

(a) an offence under any section of this Act (other than a section contained in Part XII, XIII, XV or XVI or section 290 or 323), or

(b) an offence against any bye-law made under section 9 and relating to salmon, trout or eels.

(2) Where a fine imposed for an offence to which this section applies has been paid or levied, then, unless the fine has been wholly remitted, the following provisions shall apply—

(a) in case it appears to the Minister that a member of the Garda Síochána was the means of bringing to justice the person by whom the offence was committed, there shall be paid—

(i) to the board of conservators of the fishery district in which the offence was committed a sum equal to two-thirds of the fine, or, if the fine was remitted in part, of so much thereof as was not remitted, and

(ii) into the Garda Síochána Reward Fund, a sum equal to one-third of the fine or, if the fine was remitted in part, of so much thereof as was not remitted.

(b) In any other case, there shall be paid to the said board of conservators a sum equal to the fine or, if the fine was remitted in part, so much thereof as was not remitted.

(3) All moneys payable under subsection (2) of this section shall be paid by the Minister out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas at such times as he thinks fit.