Fisheries Act, 1939

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How offences may be tried.

101.—(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other enactment, any offence under the Fisheries Acts or this Act may be heard and determined in a summary way by a Justice of the District Court upon the complaint, verbal or otherwise, of a member of the Gárda Síochána, any officer or employee of a board of conservators, or any other person.

(2) An offence under the Fisheries Acts or this Act may be brought before and heard and disposed of by a Justice of the District Court irrespective of the place in which the person alleged to have committed such offence resides or in which such offence is alleged to have been committed.