Sea Fish Industry Act 1938

6 Registration under marketing schemes

(1) A marketing scheme for regulating any activity on the part of persons carrying on any designated business shall be of no effect unless provision is made by the scheme whereby any person carrying on that business in Great Britain is entitled, on application made by him in that behalf, to be registered under the scheme as carrying on that business, and the scheme may provide that, on and after such date as may be specified in the scheme, no person shall carry on that business unless he is either registered under the scheme or, by virtue of the provisions of the scheme or of this Part of this Act, exempt from registration thereunder.

(2) If any person carries on any business in contravention of any provisions of a marketing scheme which have effect by virtue of the preceding subsection, he shall be guilty of an offence, and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, and to a further fine not exceeding twenty pounds for every day on which the offence continues after conviction therefor and also, in the case of a second or subsequent conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.

(3) If and so long as any person is registered under a marketing scheme as carrying on a designated business,—

(a) he shall be exempt from any obligation to be registered in the Commission's register as carrying on that business, and

(b) it shall be the duty of the Commission to secure that he is not so registered.