South Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

FISHERIES ACT 1982 - SECT 66

66—Additional penalty based on value of fish taken unlawfully

        (1)         Where a person is convicted of an offence against this Act involving fish taken in contravention of this Act, the court must, in addition to imposing any other penalty prescribed by this Act, impose a penalty equal to—

            (a)         five times the amount determined by the convicting court to be the wholesale value of the fish at the time at which the offence was committed; or

            (b)         $30 000,

whichever is the lesser amount.

        (2)         For the purposes of subsection (1), a fish taken in contravention of this Act is be taken to have a wholesale value equivalent to that of a fish of the same species taken not in contravention of this Act.