STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 971 



(a.) Uses any instrument for the purpose of damaging or destroy- 

 ing, by cutting or otherwise, any fishing implement belong- 

 ing to another sea-fishing boat, except in the cases provided 

 for by Articles twenty and twenty-one of the first Schedule 

 to this Act ; or, 



(&.) Takes on board or has on board such boat any instrument 

 serving only or intended to damage or destroy fishing 

 implements, by cutting or otherwise ; 



such person 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, and the instrument shall be liable to be forfeited. 



6. The regulations respecting lights for the time being in force 

 under the Acts relating to merchant shipping shall, so far as they 

 relate to sea-fishing boats, be deemed to be provisions of this Act and 

 may be enforced accordingly, and a sea-fishery officer shall for that 

 purpose, in addition to his powers under this Act, have the same 

 powers as are given to any officer by the said Acts relating to mer- 

 chant shipping. 



EXCLUSIVE FISHERY LIMITS. 



7. (1.) A foreign sea-fishing boat shall not enter within the ex- 

 clusive fishery limits of the British Islands, except for purposes 

 recognized by international law, or by any Convention, Treaty, or 

 Arrangement for the time being in force between Her Majesty and 

 any Foreign State, or for any lawful purpose. 



(2.) If a foreign sea-fishing boat enters the exclusive fishery limits 



of the British Islands, 

 (a.) The boat shall return outside of the said limits so soon as the 



purpose for which it entered has been answered ; 

 (6.) No person on board the boat shall fish or attempt to fish while 



the boat remains within the said limits; 



(c.) Such regulations as Her Majesty may from time to time pre- 

 scribe by Order in Council shall be duly observed. 

 (3.) In the event of any contravention of this section on the part 

 of any foreign sea-fishing boat, or of any person belonging thereto, 

 the master or person for the time being in charge of such boat, shall 

 be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding, in the case 

 of the first offence, ten pounds, and in the case of a second or any sub- 

 sequent offence, twenty pounds. 



REGISTRY OF BRITISH SEA-FISHING BOATS. 



8. (1.) Sections twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, and 

 twenty-six of the Sea Fisheries Act, 1868 (which relate to the regis- 

 try of British sea-fishing boats), shall have effect as if Articles five 

 to twelve (both inclusive) of the first Schedule to this Act were 

 therein referred to in addition to the Articles of the first Schedule to 

 that Act in the said sections mentioned, and as if offences under this 

 Act were offences in the said sections mentioned; provided that 

 nothing in the said sections shall be deemed to authorize any foreign 

 sea-fishery officer to do anything which he is not, under the first 

 Schedule to this Act, authorized to do. 



