Fisheries (Amendment) Act 2003

Increase in certain fines.

30.—(1) Table I (as amended by section 16 of the Act of 1994) to section 2 of the Act of 1978 is amended at reference number 4 by substituting “€500,000” for “£200,000” in column (3).

(2) Section 222C(5) (inserted by section 3 of the Act of 1983) of the Principal Act is amended by substituting “€500,000” for “£200,000”.

(3) Section 15 of the Act of 1994 is amended by substituting—

(a) in subsection (2), “€3,000” for “£1,000”, and

(b) in subsection (3), “a fine not exceeding €3,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months” for “a fine not exceeding £1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months”.