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that shall be subject to regulation by the Local 

 Authority under the Public Health Acts. 



That regulations for the treatment of carcasses 

 of whales in the stations or factories shall be made 

 by the Local Authority with the approval of the 

 Local Government Board. 



That such regulations shall include provisions 

 (a) that any whale brought to the station shall be 

 carried into the factory and flenched within forty- 

 eight hours after the arrival of the steamer, and all 

 the meat removed from the bones, and the bones 

 boiled within sixty hours, (b) that no part whatever 

 of the carcass, including the blood, is to be returned 

 to the sea or exposed on the beach or ground except 

 as regards the blood, in such quantity as the Local 

 Authority may consider unavoidable and innocuous. 



That whaling shall be prohibited within the 

 three mile limit of the territorial waters. 



That whaling shall be prohibited from ist 

 November to the 3ist March. 



That no person shall pursue or kill a whale 

 within a mile of a boat anchored or engaged in 

 fishing, or half a mile of any other boat. 



That it shall be lawful for His Majesty by Order 

 in Council to prohibit the capture and killing of 

 whales during the summer herring fishing, within 

 forty miles from land, and the landing of whales 

 captured and killed within that limit for such 

 period, not longer than five weeks, as he may 

 prescribe. 



That it shall be unlawful to kill whales under 



