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SEAL FISHERIES (NORTH PACIFIC) ACT 1895 - SECT 3

Procedure for enforcing Act.

3.(1) Any offence or fine under this Act may be prosecuted or recovered in
like manner as if it were an offence or fine under the
Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.

(2) For the purpose of the forfeiture of any ship under this Act, section
seventy-six of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, shall apply.

(3) Where any commissioned officer on full pay in the naval service of Her
Majesty the Queen has reasonable cause to believe that, during the period and
in the seas specified in an Order in Council under this Act, any British ship
has been used or employed in contravention of this Act, or of any regulation
made thereunder, he may stop and examine her, and detain her or any portion of
her equipment or any of her crew, and may seize the ship's certificate of
registry.

(4) For carrying into effect an arrangement with any foreign State, an Order
in Council under this Act may provide that the powers under this Act of such
commissioned officer may, subject to any limitations, conditions,
modifications, and exceptions specified in the Order, be exercised in relation
to a British ship and the equipment, crew and certificate thereof by such
officers of the said foreign State as are specified in the Order, or in
relation to a ship of the said foreign State and the equipment, crew and
papers thereof by such British officers as are specified in the Order.

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