SEA FISHERIES ACT 1883 - SECT 12 Powers of British sea-fishery officers.

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SEA FISHERIES ACT 1883 - SECT 12

Powers of British sea-fishery officers.

12. For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this Act and of any Order
in Council under this Act or under the Sea Fisheries Act, 1868, as amended by
this Act, a British sea-fishery officer may with respect to any
sea-fishing boat within [British fishery limits] and with respect to any
British sea-fishing boat outside of those limits, exercise the following
powers:

(1)He may go on board it;

(2)He may require the owner, master, and crew, or any of them, to produce any
certificates of registry, licences, official logbooks, official papers,
articles of agreement, muster rolls, and other documents relating to the boat,
or to the crew, or to any member thereof, or to any person on board the boat,
which are in their respective possession or control on board the boat, and may
take copies thereof or of any part thereof;

(3)He may muster the crew of the boat;

(4)He may require the master to appear and give any explanation concerning his
boat and her crew, and any person on board his boat, and the said certificates
of registry, licences, official logbooks, official papers, articles of
agreement, muster rolls, and other documents, or any of them;

(5)He may examine all sales, lights, small boats, anchors, grapnels, and
fishing implements belonging to the boat;

(6)He may seize any instrument serving only or intended to damage or destroy
fishing implements, by cutting or otherwise, which is found on board the boat
or in the possession of any person belonging to the boat;

(7)He may make any examination or inquiry which he deems necessary to
ascertain whether any contravention of the provisions of this Act, or of any
such Order of Council as aforesaid has been committed, or to fix the amount of
compensation due for any damage done to another sea-fishing boat, or to any
person or property on board thereof or belonging thereto, and may administer
an oath for such purpose; and

(8)In the case of any person who appears to him to have committed any such
contravention he may, without summons, warrant, or other process, both take
the offender and the boat to which he belongs and the crew thereof to the
nearest or most convenient port, and bring him or them before a competent
court, and detain him, it, and them in the port until the alleged
contravention has been adjudicated upon.

S.13 rep. by 1968 c.77 s.22 sch.2 Pt.II

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SEA FISHERIES ACT 1883 - SECT 12