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Prosecution of summary offences — Sea-Fisheries Acts 2003 and 2006.
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38.— (1) Proceedings for an offence under the Sea-Fisheries Acts 2003 and 2006 (other than a section specified in a Table) may be prosecuted summarily by the Minister.
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(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other enactment, an offence under the Sea-Fisheries Acts 2003 and 2006, other than an offence specified in a Table, may be determined in a summary way by a judge of the District Court upon the complaint, verbal or otherwise, of a sea-fisheries protection officer.
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(3) For the purpose of giving jurisdiction under the Sea-Fisheries Acts 2003 and 2006 any act which is an offence under those Acts and triable summarily shall, if committed by or on board a sea-fishing boat—
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(a) be deemed to have been committed in any place in which the accused person may be, or
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(b) which was within the exclusive fishery limits when the act was committed or when the accused person was arrested, be deemed to have been committed in a district court district abutting on that portion of those limits in which the boat was when the act was committed or the accused person arrested, as the case may be.
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