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14 1959

FISHERIES (CONSOLIDATION) ACT, 1959

PART XXI.

Transitory Provisions.

Continuance in office of existing conservators for electoral division.

329. —Every person who holds office as a conservator for an electoral division immediately before the operative date shall be deemed to have been elected under this Act and shall, unless he sooner dies, resigns or becomes disqualified, hold office until midnight on the day on which the next election for conservators of that electoral division is held in pursuance of section 27.

Continuance of existing officers and servants.

330. —Every person who immediately before the operative date holds any office or employment to which he was appointed under any provision of any repealed enactment shall on and after the operative date continue in such office or employment and be deemed to have been appointed thereto under the corresponding provision of this Act.

Continuance of existing authorisations.

331. —Any authority granted under any provision of any repealed enactment and not withdrawn before the operative date shall on and after the operative date continue in force and have effect as if granted under the corresponding provision of this Act.

Fishery rates struck under repealed enactments.

332. —(1) Every fishery rate struck before the operative date by a board of conservators under section 13 of the Fisheries Act, 1925 (No. 32 of 1925) shall be deemed to have been struck under section 55.

(2) Every fishery rate confirmed before the operative date by the Minister under section 13 of the Fisheries Act, 1925 , shall be deemed to have been confirmed by the Minister under section 55.

(3) Every fishery rate struck, before the operative date, by the Minister under section 13 of the Fisheries Act, 1925 , shall be deemed to have been struck by the Minister under section 55.

Continuance of existing licences and certificates.

333. —Every licence issued and every certificate granted under any provision of any repealed enactment and in force immediately before the operative date shall, on and after the operative date, continue in force and be deemed to have been granted under the corresponding provision of this Act.

Continuance of existing bye-laws, orders and regulations.

334. —Each of the following instruments which was in force immediately before the operative date:—

(a) any bye-law made under any repealed enactment,

(b) any order or regulation made under any repealed enactment,

shall, on and after the operative date, continue in force and be deemed to have been made under the corresponding provision of this Act.

Amendment of certain bye-laws made under repealed enactments providing for forfeiture.

335. —Where any bye-law (being a bye-law creating an offence) made under any repealed enactment and continued in force by section 334 provides as part of the punishment for the offence and as a statutory consequence of conviction thereof that the person convicted of that offence shall forfeit a particular thing or that a particular thing shall be forfeited, the said bye-law shall be construed as if in lieu of that provision, it provided that, where a person is convicted of that offence, the thing specified in the said bye-law as the thing to be forfeited shall as a statutory consequence of conviction stand forfeited.