BILL NO. 109

1st Session, 57th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
47-48 Elizabeth II, 1998-99

Private Member's Bill

Fisheries and Coastal Resources Act
(amended)

Neil LeBlanc
Argyle

First Reading: May 27, 1999

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

This Bill increases penalties for contravention of the Fisheries and Coastal Resources Act or regulations or a licence or lease under the Act, to be in line with the penalties under the federal Fisheries Act.

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 (1) Subsection 116(1) of Chapter 25 of the Acts of 1996, the Fisheries and Coastal Resources Act, is repealed and the following subsection substituted:

(1) A person who contravenes this Act or the regulations or fails to comply with a term or condition of a licence or lease issued pursuant to this Act is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars or, in default of payment, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year.

(2) Subsection 116(3) of Chapter 25 is repealed and the following subsection substituted:

(3) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a person who is guilty of a second or subsequent offence, other than by virtue of subsection (2), is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year, or to both a fine and imprisonment.