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(2) If any person feels aggrieved by any conviction under this act 

 by a court of summary jurisdiction, or by any determination or adjudi- 

 cation of sucli court with respect to any compensation under this act, 

 he may, where imprisonment is awarded without the option of a fine, or 

 the sum adjudged to be paid exceeds £5, appeal therefrom as follows: 

 (a) In England the appeal should be to quarter sessions in manner pro- 

 vided by the summary jurisdiction (English) acts ; (b) iu Ireland the 

 appeal should be to the court of quarter sessions in manner directed by 

 the petty sessions (Ireland) act, 1851, and the acts amending the same; 

 (c) in Scotland, the Isle of Man, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, 

 Alderney, and Sark, the appeal shall be to the court and in the manner 

 iu which apj)eals from the like convictions and determinations and ad- 

 judications are made. 



17. (1) Any document drawn up in pursuance of the first schedule to 

 this act shall be admissible in any proceeding, civil or criminal, as evi- 

 dence of the facts or matters therein stated. 



(2) If evidence contained in any such document was taken on oath iu 

 the presence of the person charged in such evidence, and such person 

 had an opx^ortunity of cross-examining the person giving such evidence 

 and of making his reply to such evidence, the sea-fishery ofi&cer draw- 

 lug up such document may certify the said facts, or any of them. 



(3) Any document or certificate in this section mentioned purporting 

 to be signed by a sea-fishery officer shall be admissible in evidence 

 without proof of such signature, and if purporting to be signed by any 

 other x^erson, shall, if certified by a sea-fishery officer to have been so 

 signed, be deemed, until the contrary is proved, to have been signed by 

 such other persons. 



(4) If any person forges the signature of a sea-fishery officer to any 

 such document as above mentioned, or makes use of any such document 

 knowing the signature thereto to be forged, such person shall be liable 

 on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three 

 months with or without hard labor, and on conviction on indictment to 

 be imprisoned with or without hard labor for a term not exceeding two 

 years, and the cost of the iD^rosecution of any such person on indictment 

 may be paid as in cases of felony. 



18. For the purpose of giving jurisdiction to courts under this act, a 

 sea-fishing boat shall be deemed to be a ship within the meaning of any 

 act relating to offenses committed on board a ship, and every court 

 shall have the same jurisdiction over a foreign sea-fishing boat within 

 the exclusive fishery limits of the British Islands, and persons belong- 

 ing thereto, as such court would have if such boat were a British sea- 

 fishing boat. 



19. Service of any summons or other matter in any legal proceeding 

 under this act shall be good service if made personally on the person 

 to be served, or at his last place of abode, or if made by leaving such 

 summons for him on board any sea-fishing boat to which he may be- 



