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SEA FISHERIES (SCOTLAND) AMENDMENT ACT 1885

SEA FISHERIES (SCOTLAND) AMENDMENT ACT 1885 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the Law relating to Scottish Sea Fisheries and for
other purposes relating thereto.
[14th August 1885]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1898

SEA FISHERIES (SCOTLAND) AMENDMENT ACT 1885 - SECT 1
Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Sea Fisheries (Scotland) Amendment
Act, 1885, and shall be read and construed along with the Sea
Fisheries Act, 1883.

SEA FISHERIES (SCOTLAND) AMENDMENT ACT 1885 - SECT 2
Application.

2. This Act shall apply only to Scotland, and to the parts of the
sea adjoining Scotland.

S.3 rep. by 1968 c.77 s.22 sch.2 Pt.II[

SEA FISHERIES (SCOTLAND) AMENDMENT ACT 1885 - SECT 5
Steam trawlers to have letters and numbers painted on the quarter.

5. Every British sea-fishing boat propelled by steam, fishing in any
part of the sea adjoining Scotland, shall, in addition to having
the number and letters painted on the bow in manner provided by
the Sea Fisheries Act, 1883, have the initial letter or letters of
the port to which it belongs, and the registry number in the
series of numbers for that port, painted in white oil-colour on a
black ground, on the funnel twelve inches from the top, and on the
quarter three or four inches below the gunwale, and so as to be
clearly visible, of the dimensions prescribed for the letters and
numbers on the bow by the regulations in force for the time being
for the lettering, numbering, and registering of British sea-fishing
boats under the Sea Fisheries Acts or any Act amending the same.

This section shall be enforced in the same manner as if it were
contained in such regulations.

It shall be the duty of the [Secretary of State] to enforce the
provisions of the Sea Fisheries Acts, and of any Orders in Council
following thereon, with respect to the numbering and lettering of
fishing boats by directing their officers being sea fishery officers
to use the powers in that behalf conferred upon sea fishery
officers by the said Acts and Orders in Council.