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Fisheries Amendment Act 1982

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Short Title

Amendments to Fisheries Amendment Act 1963

Offences in relation to application for permit

Fisheries Amendment Act 1982

Public Act		1982 No 72
Date of assent		23 November 1982

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Amendments to Fisheries Amendment Act 1963
3	Offences in relation to application for permit
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Fisheries Act 1908

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Fisheries Amendment Act 1982, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Fisheries Act 1908.

2 Amendments to Fisheries Amendment Act 1963

(1)

The Fisheries Amendment Act 1963 is hereby amended—

(a)

By omitting from the definition of the term “year” in section 3(1) the words “31st day of December”, and substituting the words “30th day of September”:

(b)

By omitting from section 9(f) the words “1st day of February”, and substituting the words “1st day of November”.

(2)

The Fisheries Amendment Act 1963 is hereby further amended by omitting the words “the statutory declaration” from section 6(4), section 10(2), and section 11(2), and substituting in each case the words “a certificate under the signature”.

3 Offences in relation to application for permit

The Fisheries Amendment Act 1963 is hereby further amended by inserting, after section 11, the following section:

“11a

Every person commits an offence against this Act who, in any application for the registration of a fishing boat or for a boat fishing permit or for a shore-fishing permit or for a duplicate of a certificate of registry or boat fishing permit or shore-fishing permit, or in support of any such application, makes any statement, written or oral, or concurs in any written or oral statement made by any other person, knowing such statement to be false or misleading in any material particular, and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $1,000.”

This Act is administered in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.

Fisheries Amendment Act 1982