Equal Enterprise Ltd v Attorney-General - [1995] 3 NZLR 293

Fishing and fisheries — Offences — Penalties — Forfeiture — Whether debenture and mortgage charges subsist as security against vessel after forfeiture or are extinguished upon forfeiture — Fisheries Act 1983, ss 107B and 107C.

Fishing and fisheries — Offences — Forfeiture — Extinguishment of security interests against vessel upon forfeiture — Whether Register of Ships should be amended following forfeiture of registered ship — Whether in a case of forfeiture register should include notation to effect that in consequence of forfeiture, ship is no longer security for mortgage to bank-Fisheries Act 1983, ss 107B and 107C — Ship Registration Act 1992, ss 36, 39 and 61.