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if articles 5 to 12 (both inclusive) of the first schedule to this act were 

 therein referred to in addition to the articles of the first schedule to that 

 act in the said sections mentioned, and as if offenses under this act were 

 offenses in the said sections mentioned ; provided that nothing in the 

 said sections shall be deemed to authorize any foreign sea-fishery officer 

 to do anything which he is not, under the first ' schedule to this act, 

 authorized to do. 



(2) Section 176 of the customs consolidation act, 1876, shall not apply 

 to any British sea-fishing boat entered or registered in pursuance of the 

 said sections of the sea fisheries act, 1868. 



Miscellaneous. 



9. (1) There shall not be manufactured or sold or exposed for sale at 

 any place within the British Islands, any instrument serving only or 

 intended to damage or destroy fishing implements, by cutting or other- 

 wise. 



(2) In the event of any contravention of this section a person guilty 

 thereof shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding 

 £50, or, in the discretion of the court, to imprisonment for a term not 

 exceeding three months, with or without hard labor, and the instrument 

 shall be liable to be forfeited. 



10. The boats and things specified in article 25 of the first schedule 

 to this act shall be deemed to be "wreck" within the meaning of any 

 acts relating to merchant shipping, so however that the provisions of 

 the said article shall be duly observed. 



Enforcement of act. 



11. (1) The provisions of this act and of any order in council under 

 this act or under the sections of the sea fisheries act, 1868, amended by 

 this act, shall be enforced by sea-fishery officers, either British or foreign. 



(2) The following persons shall be British sea-fishery officers 5 that 

 is to say, every officer of or appointed by the Board of Trade, every com- 

 missioned officer of any of Her Majesty's ships on full pay, every officer 

 authorized in that behalf by the admiralty, every British consular officer, 

 every collector and principal officer of customs in any place in the 

 British Islands, and every officer of customs in the British Islands au- 

 thorized in that behalf by the commissioners of customs, every divisional 

 officer of the coast guard, and every principal officer of a coast-guard 

 station. 



(3) The following persons shall be foreign sea-fishery officers; that is 

 to say, the commander of any vessel belonging to the Government of 

 any foreign state bound by the convention, and any officer appointed 

 by a foreign state for the purpose of enforcing the convention, or other- 

 wise recognized by Her Majesty as a sea-fishery officer of a foreign 

 state. 



12. For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this act and of any 

 order in council under this act or under the sea fisheries act, 1868, as 





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