Merchant Shipping Act 1894

417 Board of Trade regulations as to conveyance of fish from trawlers.

(1) The Board of Trade, on the application of any owners of a fleet of fishing boats, or of any association of owners of fishing boats, or of any persons having the charge or command of a fleet of fishing boats, or without such application if the person or association entitled to make the application fails after request by the Board of Trade to do so, may make such regulations respecting the conveyance of fish from fishing boats catching fish as trawlers to vessels engaged in collecting and carrying fish to port, as may appear to the Board expedient for preventing loss of life, or danger to life or limb.

(2) All regulations so made shall be laid for thirty days before both Houses of Parliament while in session, and shall not come into force till the expiration of those thirty days; and if either House within those thirty days resolves that the whole or any part of the regulations laid before them ought not to be in force, the same shall not have any force, without prejudice, nevertheless, to the making of any other regulation in its place.

(3) All regulations made under this section shall, whilst in force, have effect as if enacted in this Act.

(4) If any person to whom such a regulation applies fails without reasonable; cause to comply therewith, he shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.

(5) This section shall apply to fishing boats of whatever tonnage.