Seal Fisheries (North Pacific) Act, 1895. (2.) If there is any contravention of any such regulation any person who committed, procured, aided or abetted such contravention shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds. (3.) If the regulations under this section provide for the entry of particulars in the official log of a ship, the provisions 57 & 58 Vict. of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, with reference to official logs (including the penal provisions), shall apply to every ship engaged in seal fishing within such of the seas to which this Act applies as are specified in the Order. c. 60. Procedure for 3.-(1.) Any offence or fine under this Act may be proseenforcing Act. cuted or recovered in like manner as if it were an offence or fine under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. Provision as to ship's papers. (2.) For the purpose of the forfeiture of any ship under this Act, section seventy-six of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, shall apply. (3.) Where any commissioned officer on full pay in the naval service of Her Majesty the Queen has reasonable cause to believe that, during the period and in the seas specified in an Order in Council under this Act, any British ship has been used or employed in contravention of this Act, or of any regulation made thereunder, he may stop and examine her, and detain her or any portion of her equipment or any of her crew, and may seize the ship's certificate of registry. (4.) For carrying into effect an arrangement with any foreign State, an Order in Council under this Act may provide that the powers under this Act of such commissioned officer may, subject to any limitations, conditions, modifications and exceptions specified in the Order, be exercised in relation to a British ship and the equipment, crew and certificate thereof by such officers of the said foreign State as are specified in the Order, or in relation to a ship of the said foreign State and the equipment crew and papers thereof by such British officers as are specified in the Order. 4.-(1.) Where an officer has power under this Act to seize a ship's certificate of registry, he may, subject to the directions of an Order in Council under this Act, either retain the certificate and give a provisional certificate in lieu thereof, or return the certificate with an endorsement of the grounds on which it was seized; and in either case may, if the ship appears to him to be liable to forfeiture, direct the ship, by an addition to the provisional certificate or to the endorsement, to proceed forthwith to a specified port, being a port where there is a British court having authority to adjudicate in the matter, and if this direction is not complied with, the owner and master of the Seal Fisheries (North Pacific) Act, 1895. ship shall, without prejudice to any other liability, each be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds. (2.) Where in pursuance of this section à provisional certificate is given to a ship, or the ship's certificate is endorsed, any officer of customs in Her Majesty's dominions or British consular officer may detain the ship, until satisfactory security is given for her appearance in any legal proceedings which may be taken against her in pursuance of this Act. 5.-(1.) A statement in writing, purporting to be signed Evidence. by an officer having power in pursuance of this Act to stop and examine a ship, as to the circumstances under which or grounds on which he stopped and examined the ship, shall be admissible in any proceedings, civil or criminal, as evidence of the facts or matters therein stated. (2.) If evidence contained in any such statement was taken on oath in the presence of the person charged in the evidence, and that person had an opportunity of cross-examining the person giving the evidence and of making his reply to the evidence, the officer making the statement may certify that the evidence was so taken, and that there was such opportunity as aforesaid. 6.—(1.) Her Majesty the Queen in Council may make, re- Orders in voke, and alter Orders for the purpose of this Act, and every Council. such Order shall be forthwith laid before both Houses of Parliament and published in the London Gazette. (2.) Any such Order may contain any limitations, conditions, modifications, and exceptions, which appear to Her Majesty in Council expedient for carrying into effect the object of this Act. 7.—(1.) This Act shall apply to the animal known as the Application, fur seal, and to any marine animal specified in that behalf by construction, an Order in Council under this Act, and the expression "seal" in this Act shall be construed accordingly. short title, and duration of Act and repeal. (2.) This Act shall apply to the seas within that part of the Pacific Ocean known as Behring's Sea, and within such other parts of the Pacific Ocean as are north of the forty-second parallel of north latitude, and shall be in addition to and not in derogation of the provisions of the Behring Sea Award Act, 57 & 58 Vict. 1894. (3.) The expression "equipment" in this Act includes any 'boat, tackle, fishing or shooting instruments, and other things belonging to a ship. (4.) This Act may be cited as the Seal Fisheries (North c. 2. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 23. Seal Fisheries (North Pacific) Act, 1895. (5.) The Seal Fishery (North Pacific) Act, 1893, is hereby repealed as from the passing of this Act, but shall be deemed until that passing to have continued in force, and any Order in Council in force under that Act shall continue as if it had been made in pursuance of this Act. (6.) This Act shall remain in force until the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, and no longer unless continued by Parliament. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer (for Canada) to the W CHAP. 43. An Act to amend the Naturalization Act, 1870, so far as respects Children of Naturalized British Subjects in the service of the Crown resident out of the United Kingdom. [6th July, 1895.] BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: Vict. c. 14, 1-(1.) The residence of a child of a naturalized British Amendment subject with his father while in the service of the Crown out of 33 & 34 of the United Kingdom, shall have, and be deemed always to s. 10 have had, the same effect, for the purpose of subsection five as respects of section ten of the Naturalization Act, 1870, as residence naturalized with such father in the United Kingdom. children of British subjects (2.) Subsection five of section ten of the Naturalization Act, resident 1870, shall have effect as if the words "or with such father abroad. while in the service of the Crown out of the United Kingdom" had been inserted therein after the words "part of the United Kingdom," and every copy of the Naturalization Act, 1870, hereafter printed may be printed accordingly. 2. This Act may be cited as the Naturalization Act, 1895. Short title. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer (for Canada) to the |
