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FISHERIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 205

Recovery and evidence of expenses.

205.(1) Where under this Act the Ministry is or the Board are authorised to
recover from any person the expenses of any work,

(a)the Ministry or, as the case may be, the Board may certify the amount of
those expenses; and

(b)the amount so certified shall be recoverable by the Ministry or, as the
case may be, the Board as a debt due to it or them, and, without prejudice to
any right of the Ministry or the Board to sue in the High Court for the
recovery thereof, shall be recoverable in the county court by civil bill or
summarily as a civil debt.

(2) Where, in pursuance of subsection (1), an action is taken by the Ministry
or the Board in the county court for the recovery of the amount of any
expenses, the court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine the action
notwithstanding that, by reason of the extent of the claim or otherwise, the
case would not, but for this provision, be within the jurisdiction of a county
court.

(3) A certificate under subsection (1) shall be prima facie evidence of the
amount of the expenses stated therein and of the liability of the person named
therein to pay that amount and of the right of the Ministry or the Board, as
the case may be, to recover that amount.

Interpretation.

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