OF GREAT BRITAIN. 73 



PART II. CONVENTION AND FISHERIES. 



General Provisions. 



6. The Convention set out in the first schedule to this Act (referred 

 to in this Act as the Convention) is hereby confirmed and the Articles 

 thereof and the Declaration thereto annexed shall be of the same 

 force as if they were enacted in the body of this Act. 



7. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty from time to time, by Order 

 in Council, to make, alter, and revoke Regulations for carrying into 

 execution this Act and the intent and object thereof, and for the 

 maintenance of good order among sea-fishing boats, and the persons 

 belonging thereto, and to impose penalties not exceeding 10 . for 

 the breach of such Regulations. 



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9. A sea-fishery officer, for the purpose of enforcing the provisions 

 of this Act and of any Order in Council made thereunder, may, with 

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

 the British Islands, and with respect to any British or French sea- 

 fishing boat outside of those limits, in the seas to which this Act ap- 

 plies, 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, licenses, official logbooks, offi- 

 cial 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, which are in their respective posses- 

 sion or control on board the boat, and may take copies thereof or of 

 any part thereof: 



(3.) He may muster the crew of the boat: 



(4.) He may require the master to appear and give any explana- 

 tion concerning his boat and her crew, and any person on board his 

 boat, and the said certificates of registry, licenses, official logbooks, 

 official papers, articles of agreement, muster rolls, and other docu- 

 ments, or any of them : 



(5.) He may examine all sails, lights, buoys, barrels, floats, nets, 

 and implements of fishing belonging to the boat : 



(6.) He may make any examination and inquiry which he deems 

 necessary to ascertain whether the provisions of this Act, or of any 

 Order in Council made thereunder, are complied with : 



(7.) He may, in the case of any person who has committed any of 

 the acts constituted offences by this part of this Act, or by any Order 

 in Council made thereunder, without summons, warrant, or other 

 process, both take the offender and the boat to which he belongs, and 

 the crew thereof, to the nearest or most convenient port, and bring 

 him or them before a competent Court, and, subject to Article 

 XXVII of the Convention, detain him, it, and them in the port until 

 the alleged offence has been adjudicated upon. 



