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FISHERIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 47

Penalty for pollution.

47.(1) Subject to subsection (2), if any person causes or knowingly permits
any deleterious matter to enter any waters he shall be guilty of an offence
and shall be liable on summary conviction [to a fine not exceeding #500 or to
imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such
imprisonment].

(2) Nothing in subsection (1) shall operate to penalise the discharge of any
substance or article to which section 9 of the Radioactive Substances Act 1960
applies.

Taking, etc., spawn or fry of salmon, trout or eels.

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