Shangombo District Council (Fish Levy) By-laws, 1999 (S.I. No. 47 of 1999)

23rd April. 1999 Statutory Instruments GOVERNMENT OF ZAMBIA STATUTORY INSTRUMENT No. 47 OF 1999 The Local Government Act (Laws. Volume 16, Cap. 281) The Sbangombo District Council (Fish Levy) By-laws, 1999 IN EXERCISE of the powers contained in sections sixty-nine and seventy-six of the Local Government Act, the following By-laws are hereby made: 99 l. These By-laws may be cited as the Shangombo Pistrict Title Council (Fish Levy) By-laws, 1999. 2. In these By-laws, unless the context otherwise requires "area,. means the area under the jurisdiction of the S hangombo District Council; '"check-point" means any place within the area designated by the Council for the payment of fish levy; •· collector " means any officer of the Council authorised to collect fish levy for the Council; "Council" means the Shangombo District Council; and .. fish .. means any dead vertebrate fish and any pait thereof whether or not preserved in any form. 3. Any person who sells fish within the area or exports fish from the area shall pay to the Council a fish levy at the following rates: f aJ five hundred kwacha per kilogramme of dried fish; or (bJ three hundred kwacha per kilogramme of fresh fish. 4. A person shall not sell fish within the area or export fish from the area (aJ which h,Lc; not been weighed at a check-point: and th J in respect of which fbh levy has not been paid to the Council. Interpreta tion Imposition of fish levy No sale or export of fish without payment of fish levy Cof>it's ,f 1hi.,·S1a1111111:,· /11stn1111<'11t Nm bt!.obtained.from the Govemmem Primer. P.t J /lox 3tJ/3f>. 10/0/ L11.wkci. Price K500 <•c,c/z. 100 Place of payment and collection of fish levy Offences and penalties Starutory Instruments 23rd April, 1999 5. Fish levy shall become payable as soon as fish has been weighed at a check-point and shaJI be received by a coUector who shall immediately issue an official receipt for each such payment. 6. ( 1) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of these By-laws shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, upon conviction ( a) in the case of a first offence, to a fine not exceeding eighty penalcy units or to imprisonment for a term not exceed ing six months, or to both; ( b) in the case of a second or subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding sixteen penalty units for every day during which the contravention continues. (2) In addition to any penalty prescribed by sub-by-law (1), the Court may order that any expenses incurred by the Council in consequences of such contravention be paid by the person commit ting the contravention. Made by Shangombo District Council this 20th day of July, 1998. C. N. MABUKU, Chairman . Shangombo District Council J. StMUSAMBA, Secretary, Shangombo District Council Confirmed by me this 9th day of April, 1999. LUSAKA [MLGH.102/51/56] B. H. W. MwnNGA, Minister of Local Government and Housing