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notwithstanding such person may be entitled to part of the 
pecuniary penalty on the conviction of the offender, and the 
defendant shall also be a competent and compellable witness. 
25. All prosecutions for the punishment of any offence Who may 
under this Act, for which offence the penalty does not exceed heat and de-_ 
the sum of $30, and imprisonment or imprisonment at hard plaints where 
labor in default of payment thereof and of the costs may take sama ae 
place before any fishery overseer, stipendiary or police magis- 
trate, or one or more of Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace 
having jurisdiction in the county or district in which the offence 
is committed. 
26. All prosecutions for the punishment of any offender In other casee. 
under this Act other than those in the next preceding section 
mentioned, may take place before any stipendiary or police 
magistrate, or any two or more of Her Majesty’s Justices of 
the Peace having jurisdiction in the county or district in 
which the offence is committed, or before any one of such 
justices and any fishery overseer. 
2%. Complaints or informations under this Act may be laid Limitation of 
within three months from the date of the commission of the Preseceton’ 
_ offence. 
28. One-half of every fine or penalty imposed by virtue of Application 
this Act shall belong to Her Majesty and may be devoted pare og: 
towards paying the expenses incurred in carrying out the pro- : , 
visions of this Act, and the other half thereof when collected 
shal] be paid over to the prosecutor or informant, together 
with any costs which he may have incurred and which may 
be collected. | 
29. All materials, implements and apparatus used, and all Fish taken or 
fish had or taken in contravention of this Act or any regula- sirsmin's 
tion made thereunder, may be seized and confiscated to Her fully to be for- 
Majesty for the use of the Province by any fishery overseer, on ‘@!*e4- 
view or taken or removed by any other person for delivery to 
any magistrate or overseer, and the proceeds thereof may be 
applied to defraying the expenses incurred under this Act. 
. 30. Save where otherwise provided by this Act, in so far Procedure on 
as they are applicable, the provisions and forms of the Act Presecutions. 
entitled An Act respecting summary convictions before 
Justices of the Peace shall apply to prosecutions and proceed- 
ings under this Act except in proceedings on appeal and the 
practice and procedure upon and with respect to appeals and 
all proceedings thereon and thereafter shall be governed by 
the “ Act Respecting the Procedwre on Appeals to the Judge OF Rey. Stat. 
a County Court trom Summary Convictions,” and no other ©. 75. 
_ appeal shall be had or shall lie save under the Act last aforesaid. 
