PART V.

Miscellaneous.

16. —(1) Proceedings for an offence under this Act shall not be instituted except by or with the consent of the Minister.

(2) Every offence under this Act may be prosecuted by or at the suit of the Minister as prosecutor.

17. —(1) The Minister may by order make regulations in relation to any matter or thing referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed.

(2) Every regulation made by the Minister under this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made, and if a resolution is passed by either such House within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat annulling such regulation, such regulation shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of any thing previously done under such regulation.

18. —(1) All expenses incurred in carrying this Act into effect shall, to such extent as shall be sanctioned by the Minister for Finance, be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.

(2) All fees received by the Minister under this Act shall be paid into or disposed for the benefit of the Exchequer in such manner as the Minister for Finance shall direct.

19. —This Act may be cited as the Sea Fisheries Act, 1931.