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Fisheries Act 1996

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353: Statutory debts under Fisheries Act 1983

You could also call this:

"Paying old fishing debts from 1983"

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You have debts from the Fisheries Act 1983. These debts include fees, charges, and levies. You still have to pay these debts even though the old law is repealed, and they are treated as debts under the new law, the Fisheries Act 1996, for payment and recovery purposes.

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Savings and transitional provisions

353Statutory debts under Fisheries Act 1983

  1. Notwithstanding the repeal of any provision of the Fisheries Act 1983 by section 314, all fees, charges, levies, and other amounts payable under the repealed provision or any regulation, order, notice, direction, or other instrument made or issued under that provision, and unpaid as at the repeal of that provision, shall continue to be due and payable as if that provision had not been repealed and, for the purposes of the provisions of this Act relating to the non-payment or recovery of any amount payable under this Act, are hereby deemed to be amounts payable under this Act.