72 LEGISLATIVE ACTS, PBOCLAMATIONS, ETC., 



ACT OF JULY 13, 1868. 

 [31 & 32 Viet, cap. 45.] 



Act of the British Parliament, to carry into effect a Convention between Her 

 Majesty and the Emperor of the French concerning the Fisheries m the Seas 

 adjoining the British Islands and France, and to amend the Laws relating 



Vuly 13, 1S681 



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: 



PART I. PRELIMINARY. 



1. This Act shall be divided into parts as follows: 



Part I. Preliminary. 

 Part II. Sea Fishery Convention. 

 Part III. Oyster Fisheries. 

 Part IV. Legal Proceedings. 

 Part V. Miscellaneous. 



2. This Act may be cited as The Sea Fisheries Act, 1868. 



3. This Act shall (except as is in this Act expressly otherwise 

 provided) come into force on such day as may be fixed by a notice 

 in that behalf published in the London Gazette, which day is in this 

 Act referred to as the commencement of this Act. 



4. So much of this Act as relates to French subjects or French 

 sea-fishing boats outside of the exclusive fishery limits of the British 

 Islands, and as gives powers to French sea-fishery officers, shall, on 

 the determination of the Convention set out in the first schedule to 

 this Act, cease to apply to French subjects, boats, and officers; but, 

 subject as aforesaid, this Act shall continue in force notwithstanding 

 the determination of that Convention. 



5. In this Act 



The term " Sea-Fish " does not include salmon, as defined by any 

 Act relating to salmon, but, save as aforesaid, includes every de- 

 scription both of fish and of shell fish which is found in the seas to 

 which this Act applies ; and " Sea-Fishing," " Sea-Fisherman," and 

 other expressions referring to sea-fish shall in this Act be construed 

 to refer only to sea-fish as before defined : 



The term " Sea-Fishing Boat " includes every vessel of whatever 

 size, and in whatever way propelled, which is used by any person in 

 sea-fishing, or in carrying on the business of a sea-fisherman : 



The term " British Islands " includes the United Kingdom of 

 Great Britain and Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Islands of Guernsey, 

 Jersey, Alderney, and Sark, and their dependencies; and the terms 

 " Great Britain and Ireland " and " United Kingdom," as used in 

 the first schedule to this Act, shall be construed to mean the " British 

 Islands " as herein defined : 



The terms " Exclusive Fishery Limits of the British Islands " and 

 " Exclusive Fishery Limits of France " mean the limits within 

 which the exclusive right of fishing is by Article I of the first 

 schedule to this Act reserved to British subjects and French subjects 

 respectively. 



