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Fisheries Act 1996

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254: Matters to be taken into account by court in sentencing

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"What the court thinks about when deciding your punishment"

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When you break a rule in the Fisheries Act 1996 and get convicted, the court thinks about the purpose of the Act when deciding your sentence. The court considers how hard it is to catch people doing wrong things with fisheries. The court also thinks about how to stop people from doing those wrong things again.

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Part 13Offences and penalties
Penalties

254Matters to be taken into account by court in sentencing

  1. If any person is convicted of an offence against this Act, the court shall, in imposing sentence, take into account the purpose of this Act and shall have regard to—

  2. the difficulties inherent in detecting fisheries offences; and
    1. the need to maintain adequate deterrents against the commission of such offences.