This Act may be cited as the Fisheries Amendment Act (No. 2) 1977, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Fisheries Act 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Section 2(1) of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the definition of “fish”, the following definition:

The said section 2(1) is hereby further amended by omitting, from the definition of the term “prescribed”, the words “this Part of”.

Section 2(2) of the principal Act (as added by section 2(5) of the Fisheries Amendment Act 1959, and amended by section 2 of the Fisheries Amendment Act 1969) is hereby further amended by inserting, after the words “this Part” wherever they appear, the words “and Part III”.

Section 2(2a) of the principal Act (as added by section 2 of the Fisheries Amendment Act 1972) is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “this Part” in both places where they appear, the words “and Part III”.

Section 2(3) of the principal Act (as added by section 2 of the Fisheries Amendment Act 1967) is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “this Part”, in both places where they appear, the words “and Part III”.

Section 4 of the principal Act (as substituted by section 3 of the Fisheries Amendment Act 1967 and amended by section 6(1) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Act 1972) is hereby further amended—

The said section 4 is hereby further amended by repealing subsection (2).

The said section 4 is hereby further amended by repealing subsection (3), and substituting the following subsection:

Section 4(4) of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “this Part”, the words “and Part III”.

Section 5(1) of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after paragraph (i), the following paragraph:

Any regulations made under the principal Act before the passing of this Act which would have been valid if this section of this Act had been in force when the regulations were made are hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

Section 52 of the principal Act is hereby amended—

Section 56(1a) of the principal Act (as inserted by section 24(2) of the Fisheries Amendment Act 1963) is hereby amended by omitting the words “this Part of”.

Section 56(2) of the principal Act (as substituted by section 10(1) of the Fisheries Amendment Act 1968) is hereby amended—

Section 58(1) of the principal Act (as substituted by section 5(1) of the Fisheries Amendment Act 1967) is hereby amended—

Section 58a(1) of the principal Act (as inserted by section 6 of the Fisheries Amendment Act 1967) is hereby amended—

Section 60 of the principal Act (as substituted by section 11 of the Fisheries Amendment Act 1968) is hereby amended—

Section 119 of the principal Act (as added by section 2 of the Fisheries Amendment Act 1977) is hereby amended by adding, as subsection (2), the following subsection:

The principal Act is hereby further amended—

Section 3(2) of the Fisheries Amendment Act 1967 is hereby consequentially repealed.

The Fisheries Amendment Act 1959 is hereby amended by repealing section 9(1) (as amended by section 14 of the Fisheries Amendment Act 1968 and section 6(1) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Amendment Act 1972), and substituting the following subsection:

The Director-General may from time to time appoint suitable persons to be honorary fishery officers for the purposes of Part I and Part III of the principal Act, and every person so appointed shall be a fishery officer for the purposes of those Parts. Any such person may be appointed to carry out his duties in relation to all or any particular species of fish in any particular area or generally throughout New Zealand. If a person is appointed in respect of a particular species or a particular area only that species or area shall be described in his warrant of appointment.”

Section 14 of the Fisheries Amendment Act 1968 is hereby consequentially repealed.

Consequential repeal—Section 5(2) of the Fisheries Amendment Act 1967 is hereby repealed.