7—Possession of prescribed quantity of aquatic resource in prescribed
circumstances
(1) For the purposes
of section 73(1) of the Act—
(a) a
quantity specified in Schedule 8 is fixed in relation to the class of
fish or other aquatic resource specified alongside that quantity; and
(b) the
following circumstances, or any combination of the following circumstances,
are prescribed:
(i)
where the fish or other aquatic resource is—
(A) frozen; or
(B) stored in a freezer;
(ii)
where the fish or other aquatic resource—
(A) has been pickled, salted, smoked,
cooked or otherwise processed; or
(B) is otherwise stored,
in a manner designed to preserve the fish or other aquatic resource.
(2) For the purposes
of section 73(2)(c) of the Act, in proceedings for an offence against
section 73(1) of the Act it is a defence if the defendant proves that the
fish or aquatic resources to which the proceedings relate—
(a) were
purchased from a person whose ordinary business was the selling of such fish
or aquatic resources; and
(b) were
purchased in the ordinary course of that business.