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BEHRING SEA AWARD ACT 1894 - SECT 1

Enactment of articles of arbitrators' award respecting the fur seal.

1.(1) The provisions of the Behring Sea Arbitration Award set out in the First
Schedule to this Act shall have effect as if those provisions (in this Act
referred to as the scheduled provisions) were enacted by this Act, and the
acts directed by Articles one and two thereof to be forbidden were expressly
forbidden by this Act.

(2) If there is any contravention of this Act, any person committing,
procuring, aiding, or abetting such contravention shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor within the meaning of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, and the
ship employed in such contravention and her equipment, and everything on board
thereof, shall be liable to be forfeited to Her Majesty as if an offence had
been committed under section one hundred and three of the said Act: Provided
that the court, without prejudice to any other power, may release the ship,
equipment, or thing, on payment of a fine not exceeding five hundred pounds.

(3) The provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, with respect to
official logs (including the penal provisions) shall apply to every vessel
engaged in fur seal fishing.

(4) Every person who forges or fraudulently alters any licence or other
document issued for the purpose of Article four or of Article seven in the
First Schedule to this Act, or who procures any such licence or document to be
forged or fraudulently altered, or who knowing any such licence or document to
be forged or fraudulently altered uses the same, or who aids in forging or
fraudulently altering any such licence or document, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor within the meaning of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854.

(5) Subject to this Act, the provisions of sections one hundred and three and
one hundred and four and Part Ten of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, and of
section thirty-four of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1876, which are set out in
the Second Schedule to this Act, shall apply as if they were herein
re-enacted, and in terms made applicable to an offence and forfeiture under
this Act; and any commissioned officer on full pay in the naval service of Her
Majesty the Queen may seize the ship's certificate of registry.

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