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shall, and the same shall accordingly (subject to the exceptions, restric- 

 tions, and conditions, if any, in the order mentioned) apply to the said 

 convention, .treaty, or arrangement, and have effect in like manner as 

 if the said convention, treaty, or arrangement were set forth in the first 

 schedule to this act, and were part of that schedule and were the con- 

 vention referred to in this act. 



24. If the provisions of this act are applied by order in council to any 

 convention, treaty, or arrangement made in substitution for the con- 

 vention set forth in the first schedule to the sea fisheries act, 1868, or 

 for the convention and articles set forth in the schedule to the act of 

 the sixth and seventh years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chap- 

 ter 79, entitled "An act to carry into effect the convention between Her 

 Majesty and the King of the French, concerning the fisheries in the 

 seas between the British Islands and France," that last-mentioned act 

 shall, after the date fixed by the said order for the application of this 

 act, be repealed, but such last-mentioned act shall, until the said date 

 or any earlier date at which the convention set forth in the first sched- 

 ule to the sea fisheries act, 1868, comes into operation, continue in force 

 so far as regards French sea-fishing boats and persons belonging there- 

 to within the seas to which the said convention and articles set forth in 

 the schedule thereto apply, so far as those seas are outside the exclu- 

 sive fishery limits of the British Islands, and' are not within the North 

 Sea as defined in the first schedule to this act. 



25. This act, so far as it applies to foreign sea-fishing boats outside 

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

 longing thereto, and to foreign sea-fishery officers, shall apply only 

 within the Korth Sea as defined by article 4 of the first schedule to this 

 act, or within the seas specified in any convention, treaty, or arrange- 

 ment to which this act may be applied by order in council made in pur- 

 suance of this act, and to the boats and officers of a foreign state bound 

 by the convention in the first schedule to this act or by any convention, 

 treaty, or arrangement to which this act may be applied, but save as 

 aforesaid this act shall apply to the whole of the British Islands as de- 

 fined by this act, and to the seas surrounding the same, "whether within 

 or without the exclusive fishery limits of the British Islands, and the 

 royal courts of Guernsey and Jersey shall register this act in their re- 

 spective courts. 



Supplemental. 



26. Orders in council made in pursuance of this act shall be published 

 in the London Gazette, or otherwise published in such manner as the 

 Board of Trade may direct for such sufficient time before they come 

 into force as to prevent inconvenience. 



27. The reference in section 18 of the sea fisheries act, 1868, to sec- 

 tion 200 of the customs consolidation act, 1853, shall be construed to 

 refer to section 170 of the customs consolidation act, 1876. 



