STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 983 



No. 40. 1894, August 25: Extract from British Statute, 57 and 58 



Viet., Cap. 60. 



AN ACT To consolidate Enactments relating to Merchant Shipping. 



\25th August, 



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 oy the authority 

 of the same, as follows : 



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PART IV. FISHING BOATS. 



APPLICATION OF PART IV, &C. 



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370. In this part of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires 

 The expression " fishing boat " means a vessel of whatever size, 

 and in whatever way propelled, which is for the time being employed 

 in sea fishing or in the sea-fishing service, but save as otherwise ex- 

 pressly provided, that expression shall not include a vessel used for 

 catching fish otherwise than for profit. 



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FISHING BOATS REGISTER. 



373. (1.) This section shall apply to the British Islands, and 

 to all British fishing boats, including those used otherwise than for 

 profit, and the expression " fishing boat " in this section shall be con- 

 strued accordingly. 



584 (2.) Subject to any exemptions made by the regulations 



under this section, every fishing boat shall be lettered and num- 

 bered and have official papers, and shall for that purpose be entered 

 in the fishing boat register. 



(3.) If a fishing boat required to be so entered is not so entered, 

 she shall not be entitled to any of the privileges or advantages of a 

 British fishing boat, but all obligations, liabilities, and penalties with 

 reference to that boat, and the punishment of offences committed on 

 board her, or by any persons belonging to her, and the jurisdiction of 

 officers and courts, shall be the same as if the boat were actually so 

 entered. 



(4.) If a fishing boat required to be entered in the fishing boat 

 register is not so entered, and is used as a fishing boat, the owner and 

 skipper of such boat shall each be liable, for each offence, to a fine 

 not exceeding twenty pounds, and the boat may be detained. 



(5.) Her Majesty, by Order in Council, may make regulations for 

 carrying into effect and enforcing the entry of fishing boats in the 

 fishing ooat register, and any convention with a foreign country 

 relative to the registry, lettering, and numbering of fishing boats, 

 which is for the time being in force by virtue of any statute, and may 

 by such regulations 



(a) adopt any existing system of registry or lettering and num- 

 bering of boats, and provide for bringing any such system into con- 



