972 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



577 (2.) Section one hundred and seventy-six of the Customs 

 Consolidation Act, 1876, shall not apply to any British sea- 

 fishing boat entered or registered in pursuance of the said sections 

 of the Sea Fisheries Act, 1868. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



9. (1.) There shall not be manufactured or sold or exposed for 

 sale at any place within the British Islands, any instrument serving 

 only or intended to damage or destroy fishing implements, by cutting 

 or otherwise. 



(2.) In the event of any contravention of this section a person 

 guilty thereof 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. 



10. The boats and things specified in Article twenty-five of the 

 first Schedule to this Act shall be deemed to be " wreck " within the 

 meaning of any Acts relating to merchant shipping, so however that 

 the provisions of the said Article shall be duly observed. 



ENFORCEMENT OF ACT. 



11. (1.) The provisions of this Act and of any Order in Council 

 under this Act or under the sections of the Sea-Fisheries Act, 1868, 

 amended by this Act shall be enforced by sea-fishery officers, either 

 British or foreign. 



(2.) The following persons shall be British sea-fishery officers; 

 that is to say, every officer of or appointed by the Board of Trade, 

 every commissioned officer of any of Her Majesty's Ships on full pay, 

 every officer authorized in that behalf by the Admiralty, every 

 British Consular Officer, every Collector and Principal Officer of 

 Customs in any place in the British Islands, and every officer of Cus- 

 toms in the British Islands authorized in that behalf by the Com- 

 missioners of Customs, every divisional officer of the Coastguard, 

 and every principal officer of a Coastguard station. 



(3.) The following persons shall be foreign sea-fishery officers, 

 that is to say, the commander of any vessel belonging to the Gov- 

 ernment of any foreign State bound by the Convention, and any officer 

 appointed by a foreign State for the purpose of enforcing the Con- 

 vention, or otherwise recognized by Pier Majesty as a sea-fishery 

 officer of a foreign State. 



12. For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this Act and of 

 any Order in Council under this Act or under the Sea Fisheries Act, 

 1808, as amended by this Act. a British sea-fishery officer may with 

 respect to any sea-fishing boat within the exclusive limits of the 

 British Islands and with respect to any British sea-fishing boat out- 

 side of those limits exercise the following powers : 



(1.) He may go on board it; 



(2.) He may require the owner, master, and crew, or any of them, 

 to produce any certificates of registry, licences, official log- 

 books, official papers, articles of agreement, muster rolls, 

 and other documents relating to the boat, or to the crew, or 

 to any member thereof, or to any person on board the boat. 



