STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 975 



(&.) In Ireland the appeal shall be to the Court of Quarter Ses- 

 sions in manner directed by the Petty Sessions (Ireland) 

 Act, 1851, and the Acts amending the same ; 



(c.) In Scotland, the Isle of Man, and the Islands of Guernsey, 

 Jersey, Alderney, and Sark, the appeal shall be to the 

 Court and in the manner in which appeals from the like 

 convictions and determinations and adjudications are made. 



17. (1.) Any document drawn up in pursuance of the first Schedule 

 to this Act shall be admissible in any proceeding, civil or criminal, as 

 evidence of the facts or matters therein stated. 



(2.) If evidence contained in any such document was taken on 

 oath in the presence of the person charged in such evidence, and such 

 person had an opportunity of cross-examining the person giving such 

 evidence and of making his reply to such evidence, the sea-fishery 

 officer drawing up such document may certify the said facts, or any 

 of them. 



(3.) Any document or certificate in this section mentioned purport- 

 ing to be signed by a sea-fishery officer shall be admissible in evidence 

 without proof of such signature, and, if purporting to be signed by 

 any other person, shall, if certified by a sea-fishery officer to have been 

 so signed, be deemed until the contrary is proved to have been signed 

 by such other person. 



(4.) If any person forges the signature of the sea-fishery officer to 

 any such document as above mentioned, or makes use of any such 

 document knowing the signature thereto to be forged, such person 

 shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not 

 exceeding three months with or without hard labour, and on convic- 

 tion on indictment to be imprisoned with or without hard labour for 

 a term not exceeding two years, and the cost of the prosecution of any 

 such person on indictment may be paid as in cases of felony. 



18. For the purpose of giving jurisdiction to Courts under this act, 

 a sea-fishing boat shall be deemed to be a ship within the meaning of 

 any act relating to offences committed on board a ship, and every 



Court shall have the same jurisdiction over a foreign sea- 

 579 fishing boat within the exclusive fishery limits of the British 



Islands, and persons belonging thereto, as such Court would 

 have if such boat were a British sea-fishing boat. 



19. Service of any summons or other matter in any legal proceeding 

 under this Act shall be good service if made personally on the person 

 to be served, or at his last place of abode, or if made by leaving such 

 summons for him on board any sea -fishing boat to which he may be- 

 long, with the person being or appearing to be in command or charge 

 of such boat. 



20. (1.) Where any offence against this Act has been committed by 

 some person belonging to a sea-fishing boat, the master or person for 

 the time being in charge of such boat shall in every case be liable to 

 be deemed guilty of such offence ; provided that if he proves that he 

 issued proper orders for the observance, and used due diligence to 

 enforce the observance, of this Act, and that the offence in .question 

 was actually committed by some other person without his connivance, 

 and that the actual offender has been convicted, or that he has taken 

 all practicable means in his power to prosecute such offender (if 

 alive) to conviction, he shall not be liable to any further punishment 

 than payment of compensation for any injury caused by the offence. 



