970 APPENDIX TO BEITISH CASE. 



No. 37. 1883, August 2: British Statute, Ifi and 4? Viet., Cap. 22. 



An Act to carry into effect an International Convention concerning the fisheries 

 in the North Sea, and to amend the Laws relating to British Sea Fisheries. 



[2nd August 1883.~\ 



Be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with 

 the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and 

 Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority 

 of the same, as follows: 



576 PRELIMINARY. 



1. This Act may be cited as the Sea Fisheries Act, 1883. 



CONFORMATION OF CONVENTION. 



2. The Convention set out in the first schedule to this Act (referred 

 to in this Act as the Convention) is hereby confirmed, and the 

 Articles thereof shall be of the same force as if they were enacted in 

 the body of this Act. 



FISHERY REGULATIONS. 



3. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty from time to time, by Order 

 in Council, to make, alter, and revoke regulations for carrying into 

 execution this Act, and the intent and object thereof, and for the main- 

 tenance of good order among sea fishing boats, and the persons be- 

 longing thereto, and to impose fines not exceeding ten pounds for the 

 breach of such regulations. 



4. If within the exclusive fishery limits of the British Islands any 

 person, or if outside those limits any person belonging to a British 

 sea-fishing boat, 



(a.) acts in contravention of Articles thirteen to twenty-two (both 

 inclusive) of the first schedule to this Act, or any of 

 them ; or, 



(&.) causes injury to any person in any one or more of the follow- 

 ing ways, namely, by assaulting any one belonging to an- 

 other sea-fishing boat, or by causing damage to another sea- 

 fishing boat, or to any property on board thereof, or belong- 

 ing thereto ; or 



(c.) fishes for oysters or has on board his boat any oyster dredge 

 within any seas and during any time within and during 

 which oyster fishing is prohibited by law, or by any Conven- 

 tion, Treaty, or Arrangement to which this Act may be 

 hereafter applied ; 



such persons shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not 

 exceeding fifty pounds, or, in the discretion of the Court, to imprison- 

 ment for a term not exceeding three months, with or without hard 

 labour. 



5. If within the exclusive fishery limits of the British Islands, and 

 person, or if outside those limits any person belonging to a British 

 sea-fighting boat, 



