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WHALING INDUSTRY (REGULATION) ACT 1934 (c. 49)
Ss.9-12
(b) makes or has in his possession any document so closely resembling a licence or permit under this Act as to be calculated to deceive;
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.
(2) For the purposes of this section, in its application to England and Northern Ireland, the expression "forges" has the same meaning as in the Forgery Act 1913.
1913 c. 27.
10.--(1) ̊ In any proceedings taken by virtue of this Act against the Legal owner or charterer of a ship or against the occupier of a factory in proceedings. respect of any act or omission on the part of another person, it shall be a good defence for the owner, charterer or occupier, as the case may be, to prove that the act or omission took place without his knowledge or connivance and was not facilitated by any negligence on his part.
(2) Proceedings in respect of offences under this Act may be taken in manner provided by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts:
Provided that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in those Acts, proceedings taken by virtue of this Act against any person for an offence committed at sea, may be commenced at any time within six months from the date on which that person first lands in the United Kingdom after the commission of the offence.
(3) In any proceedings a document purporting to be licence or permit granted under this Act shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed to be such a licence or permit, as the case may be.
(4) Proceedings against any person for the purposes of this Act may be taken before the court having jurisdiction in the place where that person is for the time being.
ships registered
in colonies, &c.
11. His Majesty may by Order in Council direct that any provision Application to of this Act which is expressed to apply only to British ships shall, non-British subject to such exceptions. adaptations or modifications (if any) as may be specified in the Order, apply also to other ships, being ships registered in, or licensed under the law of, any colony or British protectorate, or any territory in respect of which a mandate on behalf of the League of Nations has been accepted by His Majesty and is being exercised by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom.
12. His Majesty may by Order in Council direct that subject to such conditions, if any, as may be specified in the Order, any of the foregoing provisions of this Act which restricts the taking or killing of
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Exemption of whaling operations
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