[11] THE BRITISH SEA FISHERIES ACT. 269 



(&) The repeal shall extend only to o£acers and boats within the ex- 

 clusive fishery limits of the British Islands and to British sea-fishing 

 boats when outside the exclusive fishery limits of the British Islands. 



(c) The repeal shall not affect the power of French sea-fishery ofl&cers 

 and French courts over British sea-fishing boats when outside the ex- 

 clusive fishery limits of the British Islands, or the power of British and 

 French sea-fishery officers and British courts over French sea-fishing 

 boats brought within the exclusive fishery limits of the British Islands 

 for offenses committed outside those limits. 



(d) The repeal shall not alter the power of receiving as evidence any 

 depositions, minutes, and other documents which- by the said acts are 

 made receivable as evidence. 



(e) If the convention set forth in the first schedule to the sea fisheries 

 act, 1868, comes into operation, then, upon notice thereof being given 

 in the London Gazette, the said enactments shaU, subject to the pro- 

 visions of this section, be in force for the purposes of such convention. 



If this act is applied by order in council to French sea-fishery officers 

 and French sea-fishing boats within the seas to which the convention 

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

 said repeal of the enactments specified in the second part of the second 

 schedule to this act shall tate full effect as from the date at which such 

 application of this act takes effect. 



(3) The repeal of any enactment by this act shall not affect anything 

 duly done or suffered, or any liability, penalty, forfeiture, or punishment 

 incurred under any enactment hereby repealed, and any legal proceed- 

 ing or remedy in respect of such liability, penalty, forfeiture, or punish- 

 ment may be carried on as if this act had not passed. 



31. So much of this act as has effect outside of the exclusive fishery 

 limits of the British Islands shall, if the convention ceases to be binding* 

 on Her Majesty, cease to apply to the boats and officers of any foreign 

 state bound by the convention, and if the convention ceases to be bind- 

 ing on any foreign state, shall cease to apply to the boats and officers of 

 such state, but subject as aforesaid this act shall continue in force not- 

 withstanding the determination of the convention. 



First Schedule. 



International convention for the purpose of regulating the police of the 

 fisheries in the North Sea outside territorial waters. 



Her Maj esty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 

 Ireland ; His Majesty the Emperor of Germany, Eang of Prussia; His 

 Majesty the King of the Belgians ; His Majesty the King of Denmark; 

 the President of the French Eepublic ; and His Majesty the King of 

 the Netherlands, having recognized the necessity of regulating the 

 police of the fisheries in the North Sea outside territorial waters, have 



