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Penalty for trespass on or breach of regulations of oyster fishery.
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265.—(1) If, in respect of any oyster fishery granted under an oyster fishery order, any person—
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(a) wilfully trespasses on such fishery, or
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(b) not being a grantee or not having the written permission of the grantee or grantees, or, where more than two, of at least two-thirds of the grantees, dredges, fishes for or takes any oysters, or
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(c) being a grantee or duly authorised person as aforesaid, dredges, fishes for or takes any oysters in contravention of any regulation made under section 263 in relation to such fishery,
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such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.
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(2) Where a person is convicted of an offence under this section—
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(a) if the oysters in respect of which the offence wag committed have not been sold, those oysters shall, as a statutory consequence of conviction, stand forfeited, and the Court may direct their delivery to the grantees of the fishery from which they were taken,
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(b) if those oysters have been sold, the Court may order such person to pay to the said grantees a sum equal to the value thereof.
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