Fishing and Recreational Harbours Regulations (SOR/78-767)

30 [Repealed, SOR/81-469, s. 3]

Ticket Offences

• 31 (1) Each offence described in those sections of the Regulations specified in column I of Schedule V is hereby designated an offence for the purposes of section 25 of the Act.

• (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of the Criminal Code, any enforcement officer who believes on reasonable and probable grounds that a person has committed an offence referred to in subsection (1) may lay an information and issue and serve a summons by completing a ticket in the form prescribed by subsection (5), affixing his signature thereto and

  • (a) delivering the summons to the person at the time the alleged offence is alleged to have been committed; or

  • (b) mailing the summons to the latest known address of the person.

• (3) A person on whom a summons has been served as described in subsection (2) may, at any time prior to the expiration of the time specified in the summons, voluntarily enter a plea of guilty by

  • (a) completing the “Plea of Guilty” portion of the summons and affixing his signature thereto; and

  • (b) delivering or mailing the summons, together with a certified cheque or money order in the amount of the fine specified in the summons, to the court indicated therein.

• (4) The fine for an offence described in a section of the Regulations specified in Column I of an item of Schedule V is the amount set out opposite that section in Column II, III or IV, whichever is appropriate.

• (5) The forms of tickets set out in Parts I to X of Schedule VI in respect of the provinces specified in those Parts are hereby prescribed as the forms referred to in subsection (2).