WHALING INDUSTRY (REGULATION) ACT 1934 (c. 49)
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An Act to enable effect to be given to a Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, signed at Geneva on behalf of His Majesty on the twenty-fourth day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-one; to prohibit the taking or treating of whales within the coastal waters of the United Kingdom; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[31st July 1934]
Functions of Board of Trade now exercisable concurrently by Secretary of State: S.I. 1970/
1537, art. 2(1)
1. The provisions of this Act apply only in relation to whales Description of known'as whalebone whales or baleen whales:
Provided that if, for the purpose of enabling effect to be given to any convention relating to other whales which is signed on behalf of His Majesty after the commencement of this Act, it appears to His Majesty to be necessary so to do, His Majesty may by Order in Council direct that, subject to such exceptions, adaptations and modifications (if any) as may be specified in the Order, the provisions of this Act shall apply in relation to those other whales or to such descriptions thereof as may be so specified.
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2. It shall be unlawful for any ship to be used within the coastal waters of the United Kingdom for taking or treating whales, and if any ship is so used, the master shall be liable to imprisonment for term not exceeding three months, or to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or to both such imprisonment and such fine.
3.--(1) If any person belonging to a British ship to which this Act applies while outside the coastal waters of the United Kingdom, kills or takes, or attempts to kill or to take,—
(a) a right whale, ['or a grey whale,] or
(b) an immature whale, or
(c) a female whale which is accompanied by a calf,
that person and the master and (subject to the following provisions of this Act) the owner and the charterer (if any) of the ship shall each be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to a fine not exceeding two hundred pounds and an additional fine not exceeding the value of the products (if any) obtained or obtainable from the whale in question, or to both such imprisonment and such fines.
(2) For the purposes of this section a whale of any description shall be deemed to be immature if it is of less than such length as may be prescribed in relation to whales of that description:
'Words inserted by Sea Fish Industry Act 1938 (c. 30), s. 43(a)
whales to which the Act applies.
Prohibition of catching or treating whales within United Kingdom
waters.
Protection for certain classes
of whales.
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