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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Fisheries Act, 1897 Section 4

DESTRUCTION OF FISH BY EXPLOSIVES IN INLAND WATERS AND ON COASTS

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Fisheries Act, 1897 Section 4 is part of Fisheries Act, 1897 - DESTRUCTION OF FISH BY EXPLOSIVES IN INLAND WATERS AND ON COASTS. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

1) If any person uses any dynamite or other explosive substance in any water with intent thereby to catch or destroy any of the fish that may be therein, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two months, or with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees.

(2) In sub-section (1), the word "water" includes the sea within a distance of one marine league of the sea-coast, and an offence committed under that sub-section in such sea may be tried, punished and in all respects dealt with as if it had been committed on the land abutting on such coast..

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What does Fisheries Act, 1897 Section 4 provide?

Section Section 4 of the Fisheries Act, 1897 (DESTRUCTION OF FISH BY EXPLOSIVES IN INLAND WATERS AND ON COASTS) is reproduced on this page as part of the Fisheries Act, 1897. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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