HL Deb 05 May 1890 vol 344 cc121-2

Order of the Day for the Second Reading, read.

*THE EARL OF CAMPERDOWN

My Lords, this Bill has reference to one matter, and one matter only, namely, the amount of the penalties which are exigeable under the Herring Fisheries Acts for breaches of the bye-laws of the Scotch Fishery Board. This Bill proposes to restore the amounts of those penalties to the same figure at which they stood prior to the Act of 1889. The Herring Fisheries Act (Scotland), 1889, made certain enactments with reference to penalties, but in the same clause reserved all powers relating to the Scotch Fishery Board. But in construing the various Acts, the Scotch Judges have held, notwithstanding the proviso that the amount of the penalties exigeable has been affected by the Act of 1889. This Bill has, therefore, been introduced for restoring the powers which existed under the Act of 1885, and which were supposed, until the decision which I have referred to, still to exist. The words are identical with the language of the Act of 1885, and I move that the Bill be read a second time.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR

To which Committee does the noble Earl propose that it should be referred?

*THE EARL OF CAMPERDOWN

To the General Committee.

Bill read 2a (according to order), and committed to the Standing Committee for General Bills.

House adjourned at twenty five minutes before Five o'clock, till To-morrow, a quarter past Ten o'clock.