§ 4.17 p.m
§ Report of Amendments received (according to Order).
§ Clause 1 [Replacement of s. 9 of Act of 1923]:
§ LORD EGREMONTMy Lords, this Amendment makes a minor correction to Clause 1. The relevant authority to grant permission in the Isle of Wight area is the Isle of Wight River and Water Authority. I am afraid that we had forgotten this fact, and the Amendment puts the matter right. I beg to move.
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Amendment moved—
Page 1, line 19, after ("authority") insert ("(including the Isle of Wight River and Water Authority)").—(Lord Egremont.)
§ LORD CHAMPIONMy Lords, I support this Amendment, which as the noble Lord indicated, is purely drafting.
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ LORD EGREMONTMy Lords, this also is a drafting Amendment. It makes somewhat more precise the present terms of Clause 1(4) of the Bill, which provides that persons convicted of fishing by poisoning and other things may be ordered by the court to forfeit the fish and any instrument used. It is a purely clarifying Amendment. I beg to move.
§ Amendment moved—
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Page 2, line 24, leave out from ("section") to end of line 30 and insert—
("(a) in the case of a contravention of subsection (1) or (2) of this section, may order the forfeiture of any fish illegally taken by the person convicted or in his possession at the time of the offence, and of any instrument or thing used in the commission of the offence not being, except, where the conviction is on indictment, a vessel or vehicle; or
(b) in the case of an offence of unlawful possession of any substance or device, may order the forfeiture of that substance or device and, where the conviction is on indictment, of any vessel or vehicle in which the substance or device was contained at the time of the offence;
and may order any object so forfeited to be disposed of as the court thinks fit.")—(Lord Egremont.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.