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Penalty for fishing for or taking salmon with rod and line by unlicensed person.
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66.—(1) If—
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(a) any person fishes for or takes or kills salmon with rod and line in a fishery district and
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(b) such person is not the holder of a salmon rod ordinary licence which is for the time being in force and is available for use in that fishery district,
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such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of not less than double and not more than treble the ordinary licence duty for the time being payable in respect of a salmon rod (annual) ordinary licence, other than a salmon rod (annual) ordinary licence to which subsection (2) of section 68 applies.
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(2) Where a person is convicted of an offence under this section, the rod and line in respect of which the offence was committed shall, as a statutory consequence of conviction, stand forfeited.
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