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13. Every licensed vessel shall, at the end of the season's whaling operations. proceed direct to a port of entry in the Colony or its Dependencies and report to the Collector of Customs or Customs Officer full particulars of the catch, including the number of barrels of oil and the quantity of baleen and guano obtained.
..14. No licensee shall kill or shoot any whale calf, or any female whale which is accompanied by a calf.
15. Any dead whale abandoned in the territorial waters of the Colony or its Dependencies or thrown up on the sea shore is the property of the Crown.
16. No moorings shall be laid down in the harbours of the Colony or of any Dependency without the special permission of the Government; and the owner of any moorings already laid down shall at once remove them or alter their position on being requested to do so by the Government.
17. No whale carcass shall be moored either to a mooring, or to a vessel, in the Harbours of Deception Island so as to interfere unduly, in the opinion of a Magis- trate or a Customs Officer, with the traffic or operations of another whaling Company. No whale carcass shall at the end of the whaling season and on the departure of the floating factory be left attached to any mooring except with the permission of a Magistrate or a Customs Officer.
18. Any licensee who commits, or allows or negligently suffers a person em- ployed by him to commit, a breach of these Regulations shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £10 for each offence, and the licensee shall at the same time become liable to the immediate forfeiture of his licence and of any claim to a licence in the future. And if any person employed by a licensee commits a breach of these Regula- tions, he shall be liable to the same penalty.
19. No licences shall be issued after the 1st October, 1914, except on the terms and conditions contained in the foregoing Regulations.
20. These Regulations shall have no application to South Georgia, and shall supersede the Whaling Regulations of the Governor in Council of the 6th May, 1912, and shall come into force on the 1st October, 1914.
Dated at Government House, Stanley, this twenty-eighth day of July, 1913.
By Command,
JNO. QUAYLE Dickson,
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ST. HELENA.
AN ORDINANCE to regulaTE THE WHALE FISHERY IN THE COLONY of St. Helena. No. 4. OF 1912.
Be it enacted by the Governor of St. Helena as follows:-
I. In this Ordinance the expression "take whales" shall include killing taking Defini-
"manu- tions, or hunting or attempting to kill or hunt any whale; and the expression facture whale carcases "shall include rendering, boiling down, treating, or manu- facturing any part of the carcase of any whale wherever such whale may have been
taken.
II. It shall not be lawful for any person unless he shall first have been duly Unlawful to licensed:
(a) to take.any whale in Colonial waters; or
take whaler or manufac Cure whale Greaser with out a licence.
(b) to manufacture any whale carcase in the Colony or in Colonial waters. III. (1) The Governor, or such officer as the Governor may appoint for the Granting of purpose, may grant Whaling Licences, that is to say, licences to take whales, or to Whaling manufacture whale carcases, or to do both of these things, for such periods, and Licences. on such terms and conditions, both generally and in respect of the number and tonnage of vessels to be employed in taking whales, in towing whale carcases, and in manufacturing whale carcases, and in respect of the places at which these operations, or any of them, may be performed, as may be approved by the Governor, subject to any regulations which may be made by the Governor in Council under section 4 of this Ordinance.
(2) There shall be paid annually into the Colonial Treasury in respect of each Whaling Licence granted under this Ordinance the sum of:
(a) one hundred pounds for every vessel authorised to take whales; (b) two hundred pounds for every factory whether on shore or afloat authorised to manufacture whale carcases, provided that if the same licence also authorises the employment of any vessel to take whales the sum payable for the factory shall be one hundred and fifty pounds only. Provided that a Whaling Licence under this Ordinance may, with the approval of the Secretary of State, be granted to any person without payment of any or all of the sums aforesaid:
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WHALING REGULATIONS, SOUTH GEORGIA.
Colonial Secretary.
In pursuance of the powers in him vested by section 3 of the "Whale Fishery Ordinance, 1908," His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice of the Executive Council, is pleased to make the following Regulations :
1. No leaseholder shall kill or shoot any whale calf, or any female whale which
is accompanied by a calf.
2. Any dead whale abandoned in the territorial waters of South Georgia or thrown up on the sea shore is the property of the Crown.
3. Any leaseholder who commits, or allows or negligently suffers a person em- ployed by him to commit a breach of these Regulations shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £10 for each offence, recoverable in a summary manner before a Magistrate. And if any person employed by a leaseholder commits a breach of these Regulations, he shall be liable to the same penalty.
4. These Regulations shall supersede the Whaling Regulations of the Governor in Council dated the twenty-third day of September, 1912, and shall come into force on the first day of October, 1913.
Dated at Government House, Stanley, this twenty-eighth day of July, 1913.
By Command,
JNO. QUAYLE DICKSON,
Colonial Secretary.
IV. The Governor in Council may from time to time make regulations :- (a) for fixing the terms and conditions on which Whaling Licences may
granted:
The
Governor
be
in Council
may make
(b) for regulating the number of Whaling Licences to be granted in any year; regula-
tions.
(c) for defining the limits within which any holder of a Whaling Licence
shall be allowed to take whales;
(d) for regulating the number of whales to be taken in any year by any holder
of a Whaling Licence;
(e) for regulating the place at which and the manner in which whale carcases may be manufactured, and for securing that the whole or any part of the carcases shall be utilised or otherwise disposed of in a sanitary
manner;
(f) for disposing by sale or otherwise of any whales, whale-oil, or whale-bone
forfeited under the provisions of this Ordinance; and
(g) generally for carrying out the provisions of this Ordinance, and the
intent and object thereof;
And the Governor in Council may impose penalties not exceeding ten pounds for the breach of such regulations.
V.
Regula-
in the
All regulations made in pursuance of this Ordinance shall be published in tions to be the Colony, and shall come into force on such day as the Governor may direct by published
Colony. notice in that behalf published in the Colony.
VI. Any owner or master or other person in charge of any vessel, who shall Liability of permit such vessel, or any boat or canoe belonging to such vessel, to be employed in an owner taking whales, or who shall permit or negligently suffer any person belonging to such or master vessel to be employed in taking whales in Colonial waters, without a licence under this Ordinance, or contrary to the terms of, or beyond the limits specified in, such licence, shall forfeit any whales so taken, and any whale-oil, whale-bone or any
of a vessel.
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