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of the Ordinance or of these Regulations are being complied with, or in connection with a supposed offence, or make any plans or drawings he may require for the purpose.

The owners and managers and any other persons engaged therein shall be required to render such person, and any health or sanitary officer, any reasonable facilities for carrying out his duties.

Any person preventing or obstructing the Principal Fisheries Officer or his deputy, or any health or sanitary officer, in the discharge of his duty under these regulations shall be guilty of an offence.

No. 97. No licensee shall employ as an assistant in his business afloat or in any public place any person, after notice received from the Administrator that such person is not a fit and proper person to be so employed.

No. 98. All boats, nets, and implements used or about to be used in breach of the Ordinance or of the regulations, or without due and proper licence issued in that behalf, or which are under any regulation liable to be forfeited or destroyed, found on any foreshore or elsewhere in the Province, may be seized by any duly authorised officer, and for the purpose of such seizure any such officer may go on board any vessel or in any factory engaged in whaling.

SCHEDULE OF CHARGES.

No. 99. Section 101 (in amendment of Section 74).

The following shall be the scale of charges for annual licences for nets, fishing boats, and other implements of fishing, &c., licensed under these regulations :-

For the net (a), Section 3

For the net (b), Section 3

For the net (c), Section 3

For the net (d), Section 3

For the net (e), Section 3

For the net (f), Section 3

For the net (g), Section 3

£ s. d.

5 0 0

5 0 0

2 10 0*

1 0 0

10 0 0

1 10 0

2.10 0

2 10

0

1 0 0

1 0 Ot

0 10 0

1 0 0

0 10 0

1 0 0

5 0 0

0 10

0

0 10 0

For fish kraals (subject to the provisions of Section 43) For the taking of oysters for trade

7 10 0

5 0 0

For the taking of oysters otherwise than for trade

(Visitors Licence) per diem

0 1 0

0 10 0

For every fish factory

For the net (h), Section 3

For the net, Section 78

To angle by way of trade (personal)

For every crabpot

For every fishing boat other than a steamboat

For every mechanically-propelled fishing boat

For every mechanically-propelled vessel engaged in

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whaling" or porpoise fishing

For every boat used for " whaling " or porpoise fishing

other than mechanically-propelled

For every harpoon gun

For the taking of mussels

For each additional (mussel) licence (up to four)

0 5 0

The Licensing Officer may issue licences after the 30th June at one-half the prescribed fee.

REGULATIONS MAY BE VARIED IN THE INTERESTS OF SCIENCE.

No. 100. Notwithstanding any prohibition made in these regulations, the Principal Fisheries Officer may at any time, subject to the imposition of any condi- tions that may appear desirable, authorise the taking or capture of fish for scientific. or experimental purposes.

PENALTIES.

No. 101. Contravention of the Act or of these regulations is, in terms of Section 34 to 39 of the Act, punishable by cancellation of licence and fine or imprison

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• See amendment under Government Notice No. 710, 1907.

↑ See amendment under Government Notice No. 284, 1908.

Available for the capture of crayfish also.

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ment in default of payment, with forfeiture of boats, gear, nets, and implements, up to the value of £50, or by cancellation, forfeiture, and imprisonment without the option of a fine; or the offender may be sued in a Magistrate's Court for the whole amount of the appointed fine, in which case forfeiture of property or cancellation of licence will not be decreed.

FORMER REGULATIONS REVOKED.

No. 102. The regulations made under Law 21, 1884, or any Laws or Acts amending the same, so far as such regulations relate to waters within the operations of the Coast Fisheries Act, 1906, are hereby revoked.

1913.

COMMENCEMENT OF REGULATIONS.

No. 103. These regulations shall come into force as from the 1st day of January,

NEW ZEALAND.

AN ACT TO AMEnd the Fisheries Act, 1908.

1912, No. 49.

Title,

[7th November, 1912.]

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

1. This Act may be cited as the Fisheries Amendment Act, 1912, and shall Short title. form part of and be read together with the Fisheries Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2. (1) Every vessel of twenty-five tons register and upwards engaged in Whaling va whaling shall be licensed.

(2) For the purpose of obtaining a licence the owner or master of the vessel shall deliver to a Collector a written application, describing the vessel, her name, size, tonnage, gear, and fittings, with true particulars of her ownership, and shall verify such application by a statutory declaration, which the Collector is hereby empowered to take.

(3) On the receipt of any such application and on payment of the prescribed fee the Collector shall enter the name of the vessel in a register of whaling-vessels to be kept by him, and shall issue to the owner a licence in the prescribed form author- izing him to use the said vessel for whaling purposes.

(4) The fee payable in respect of every such licence shall be as follows:-

(a) In the case of vessels not exceeding one hundred tons register, three

pounds:

(b) In the case of vessels over one hundred tons register, five pounds.

(5) Where a licence is issued after the thirtieth day of June in any year the sum payable in respect of the licence shall be one-half of the prescribed fee.

(6) Every such licence shall remain in force only until the thirty-first day of December in the year in which it is issued:

Provided that, if the owner of the licensed vessel sells or otherwise disposes of the same, the vessel shall, on the expiration of one month from the date of such sale or disposition, be deemed to be unlicensed unless within that time application is made for a fresh licence under this Act.

(7) The owner or master of any vessel engaged in whaling without a licence under this Act is liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.

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3. -(1) Owners or masters of vessels licensed under this Act shall, at such times Returns to and in such manner as may be prescribed by regulations under this Act, furnish to the Marine Department returns as to all whales caught. by them.

(2) Every owner or master who fails to furnish returns in accordance with such regulations is liable to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.

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nished to Marine De- partiment.

4.--(1) The Governor in Council may from time to time license and permit any Whale fac- part of the foreshore or other Crown land adjacent thereto to be used or occupied tories. as a site for a whale-factory (herein-after referred to as a shore factory) on such conditions as he thinks fit, but no such site shall be within fifty miles of the site of another such factory.

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