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SEAL FISHERIES (NORTH PACIFIC) ACT 1912

SEAL FISHERIES (NORTH PACIFIC) ACT 1912 - LONG TITLE

An Act to make such provisions with respect to the prohibition of
catching Seals and Sea Otters in certain parts of the Pacific
Ocean, and for the enforcement of such prohibitions, as are
necessary to carry out a Convention between His Majesty the King
and the United States of America, the Emperor of Japan, and the
Emperor of All the Russias.
[7th August 1912]
WHEREAS a Convention has been entered into between His Majesty and
the United States of America, the Emperor of Japan, and the Emperor
of All the Russias with respect to the prohibition of pelagic
sealing in certain parts of the Pacific Ocean, and it is desirable
that such amendments of the law should be made as will enable
effect to be given to that Convention:

SEAL FISHERIES (NORTH PACIFIC) ACT 1912 - SECT 1
Extension of area within which pelagic sealing may be prohibited.

1. The seas with respect to which an Order in Council may be made
under the Seal Fisheries (North Pacific) Act, 1895, prohibiting the
killing, taking, and hunting of seals therein shall include the seas
within such part of the Pacific Ocean as is north of the thirtieth
parallel of north latitude, including the seas of Behring, Kamchatka,
Okhotsk and Japan, and accordingly ... residue amends s.7 of 1895
c.21

SEAL FISHERIES (NORTH PACIFIC) ACT 1912 - SECT 2
Power to prohibit killing and hunting of sea otters.

2. His Majesty in Council shall have the like power of making
Orders in Council under the said Act as amended by this Act with
respect to the killing, taking, and hunting of sea otters within
such part of the Pacific Ocean as aforesaid as with respect to the
killing, taking, and hunting of seals, and that Act as so amended
shall apply accordingly.

SEAL FISHERIES (NORTH PACIFIC) ACT 1912 - SECT 3
Prohibition of using ports for purposes of pelagic sealing contrary
to Order.

3.(1) If any person uses any port within the United Kingdom for
the purpose of equipping any ship intended to be used or employed
in killing, taking, or hunting seals in contravention of any such
Order as aforesaid, he shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be
liable to be dealt with as if such offence were an offence
declared to be a misdemeanour by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894,
and the ship and her equipment and everything on board thereof
shall be subject to forfeiture to His Majesty.

(2) If the Secretary of State is satisfied that there is reasonable
cause for believing that a ship has been or is being equipped
contrary to this section, the Secretary of State may authorise the
Board of Trade, or any officer of the Board, to seize and detain
the ship. Where such an authority is given, the ship may be seized
and detained in like manner as if it were liable to seizure and
detention under the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1907.

(3) For the purposes of this section, "equipping" in relation to a
ship shall include the furnishing of a ship with any tackle,
apparel, furniture, provisions, munitions, fuel or stores, or any
other thing which is used in or about a ship for the purpose of
fitting or adapting her for the sea or for killing, taking, or
hunting seals.

SEAL FISHERIES (NORTH PACIFIC) ACT 1912 - SECT 4
Prohibition of importation of skins of seals captured in
contravention of Order.

4. Skins of seals taken in contravention of any such Order as
aforesaid, and skins of seals identified as being of the species
known as Callorhinus alascanus, Callorhinus ursinus, and Callorhinus
kurilensis, and belonging to the American, Russian, or Japanese
herds, except such as are taken under the authority of the
respective Powers to which the breeding grounds of such herds belong
and have been officially marked and certified as having been so
taken, [are hereby prohibited to be imported].

SEAL FISHERIES (NORTH PACIFIC) ACT 1912 - SECT 6
Short title and construction.

6. This Act may be cited as the Seal Fisheries (North Pacific)
Act, 1912, and shall be construed with the Seal Fisheries (North
Pacific) Act, 1895; and that Act and this Act may be cited
together as the Seal Fisheries (North Pacific) Acts, 1895 and 1912.