[5] THE BEITISH SEA FISHERIES ACT. 263 



amended by this act, a British sea fishery officer may with respect to 

 any sea-fishing boat within the exclusive limits of the British Islands 

 and with respect to any British sea-fishing boat outside of those limits, 

 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, official 

 papers, articles of agreement, muster rolls, and other documents rela- 

 ting to the boat or to the crew, or to any member thereof, or to any per- 

 son on board the boat, which are in their respective possession 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 explanation 

 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 documents, or 

 any of them. 



(5) He may examine all sails, lights, small boats, ancliors, grapnels, 

 and fishing implements belonging to the boat. 



(6) He may seize any instrument serving only or intended to damage 

 or destroy fishing implements, by cutting or otherwise, which is found 

 on board the boat or in the possession of any person belonging to the 

 boat. 



(7) He may make any examination or inquiry which lie deems neces- 

 sary to ascertain whether any contravention of the provisions of this 

 act, or of any such order of council as aforesaid has been committed, or 

 to fix the amount of compensation due for any damage done to another 

 sea-fishing boat, or to any person or property on board thereof or belong- 

 ing thereto, and may administer an oath for such purpose. 



(8) In the case of any person who appears to him to have committed 

 any such contravention he may, 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 detain him, it, and them in the 

 port until the alleged contravention has been adjudicated upon. 



13. For the purpose of carrying into effect the convention, and of ex- 

 ercising and performing the powers and duties thereby vested in and 

 imposed on cruisers and commanders of cruisers, a foreign sea-fishery 

 officer may, with respect to any British sea-fishing boat, and any sea- 

 fishery officer, whether British or foreign, may, with respect to any for- 

 eign sea-fishing boat to which this act for the time being applies, exer- 

 cise any of the powers conferred by this act on British sea-fishery offi- 

 cers: FrovidedjThat (a) nothing in this section shall authorize a sea-fish- 

 ery officer to do anything not authorized by the convention ; and (&) the 

 port to which any sea-fishing boat or any person belonging thereto is 

 taken shall, except where the nationality of such boat is not evidenced 

 by official papers, be a port of the state to which such boat belongs. 



