This Act may be cited as the Fisheries Amendment Act, 1936, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Fisheries Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Regulations made under the authority of section eighty-three of the principal Act may provide for the issue of fishing licenses by acclimatization societies and for the payment to such societies of the prescribed fees payable in respect of such licenses. Such regulations may also require such societies to pay into the Consolidated Fund, at such times and in such manner as may be prescribed, a prescribed proportion of the aggregate fees charged for licenses issued by them in respect of any period commencing after the passing of this Act.

For the purpose of ensuring compliance with the requirements of any such regulations, any person authorized in that behalf by the Controller and Auditor-General may enter upon the premises of any acclimatization society and there inspect any books or papers belonging to or in the possession of the society.

All moneys paid into the Consolidated Fund pursuant to this section shall be applied in defraying expenses incurred by direction of the Minister of Marine for research in relation to fresh-water fisheries, and expenditure incidental to such research.

Section ninety-four of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing paragraph (e) thereof.