WHALING INDUSTRY (REGULATION) ACT 1934 (c. 49)
Ss.6-8
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(5) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this section, no condition involving the substitution of one type of plant for another shall be attached to a licence under this section unless at least twelve months' notice of the intention to impose the condition has been given by the licensing authority in such manner as that authority think best for informing persons concerned.
(6) The licensing authority may refuse to grant a licence under this Act in respect of a ship or factory until the authority are satisfied, from an inspection of the ship or factory or by such other evidence as they may require, that any condition affecting the structure or equipment of the ship or factory which it is proposed to attach to the licence has been complied with.
(7) If any condition attached to a licence under this Act is contravened or not complied with, then, in the case of a licence granted in respect of a ship, the master and (subject to the following provisions of this Act) the owner and the charterer, if any, of the ship, or, in the case of a licence granted in respect of a factory, the manager and (subject as aforesaid) the occupier of the factory, shall each be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to a fine not exceeding two hundred pounds, or to both such imprisonment and such fine; and the court by whom the offender is convicted may, if the court think fit, cancel any licence granted under this Act to the offender, being a licence which is for the time being in force in respect of the ship or factory, as the case may be, and that licence shall thereupon cease to be in force.
(8) Without prejudice to the provisions of the last foregoing subsection, if any person fails to keep any record in accordance with the conditions attached to a licence under this Act or knowingly makes in any record which he is required by such conditions to keep, a statement false in any material particular, he shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, or to both such imprisonment and such fine.
7.-1) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, the Board of Trade Permits to take may grant to any person a special permit authorising that person to and treat whales kill, take and treat whales for purposes of scientific research or for for scientific other exceptional purposes, subject to such restrictions as to number, purposes. and subject to such other conditions, as the Board think fit, and the killing, taking or treating of whales in accordance with a permit in force under this section shall be exempt from the operation of the foregoing provisions of this Act.
(2) The Board of Trade may at any time revoke a permit granted by them under this section.
8.(1) For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this Act, a Powers of whale whale fishery inspector, on producing on demand evidence of the fact fishery that he is such an inspector,—
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