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INTERNATIONAL PROVISIONS OF

Going on board with- out leave.

Application of provisions of previous section to foreign ship.

that person shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding £20, or, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 6 months; and the master of the ship or any officer of the Board of Trade may take him into custody, and deliver him up forthwith to a constable to be taken before a Court capable of taking cognizance of the offence.

219.-Whenever it is made to appear to Her Ma- jesty that the Government of a foreign country—

(a) has provided that unauthorised persons going on board British ships which are about to arrive or have arrived within its territorial jurisdiction shall be subject to provisions similar to those of the last preceding section which are applicable to persons going on board British ships at the end of their voy- ages; and

(b) is desirous that the provisions of the said sec- tion shall apply to unauthorised persons going on board ships of that foreign country within British territorial jurisdiction,

Her Majesty in Council may order that those provi- sions shall apply to the ships of that foreign country, and have effect as if the ships of that country arriv- ing, about to arrive or having arrived at the end of their voyage, were British ships.

ORDER IN COUNCIL [DENMARK] 15TH SEPTEMBER, 1887.

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AND WHEREAS it has been made to appear to Her Majesty—

(1) that the Government of Denmark has provided that unauthorised persons going on board of British ships which are about to arrive, or have arrived within its territorial jurisdiction, shall be subject to provi- sions similar to the provisions contained in the said herein first-recited section as applicable to persons going on board British ships at the end of their voyages: and

(2) that the said Government is desirous that the provisions of the said first-recited section shall apply to unauthorised persons going on hoard of Danish ships within the limits of British territorial jurisdiction:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the power vested in Her by the said recited Act, and by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is pleased to declare that the provisions of the said first-recited section shall apply to Danish ships.