1. Introductory Text

2. Preliminary

   1. 1. Short title.

3. Confirmation of Convention

   1. 2. Confirmation of Convention.

4. Fishery Regulations

   1. 3. Power to Her Majesty, by Orders in Council, to make, etc. regulations for execution of Act and maintenance of order.

   2. 4. Punishment for violation of Articles 13 to 22 of Convention, and for other offences.

   3. 5. Punishment for violation of Article 23 of Convention.

   4. 6, 7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

   5. 8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

   6. 9, 10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5. Enforcement of Act

   1. 11. Who are to be British and foreign sea-fishery officers.

   2. 12. Powers of British sea-fishery officers.

   3. 13. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

   4. 14. Protection of and punishment for obstructing sea-fishery officers.

6. Legal Proceedings

   1. 15. Compensation for damage caused by offence.

   2. 16. Summary prosecution of offences and recovery of fines.

   3. 17. Evidence.

   4. 18. Jurisdiction of courts.

   5. 19. Service to be good if made personally or on board ship.

   6. 20. Masters of boats liable to fines imposed.

   7. 21. Application of fines.

   8. 22. Saving of liability and rights.

7. Application of Act

   1. 23. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

   2. 24. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

   3. 25. General application of Act.

8. Supplemental

   1. 26. Publication of Orders in Council.

   2. 27. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

   3. 28. Definitions. “sea-fishing:” “sea-fishing boat:” “Fishing implements:” “British Islands:” “Person:” “Court.”

   4. 29. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

   5. 30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

   6. 31. Continuance of Act.

9. SCHEDULES

   1. FIRST SCHEDULE

      International Convention for the purpose of regulating the Police of the Fisheries in the North Sea outside Territorial Waters

      1. Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great...

      2. Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great...

      3. His Majesty the Emperor of Germany, King of Prussia, Veit...

      4. His Majesty the King of the Belgians, the Baron d’Anethan,...

      5. His Majesty the King of Denmark, Carl Adolph Bruun, Knight...

      6. The President of the French Republic, the Count Lefebvre de...

      7. His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, the Jonkheer Willem...

      8. Who, after having communicated the one to the other their...

      9. Articles I—XII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      10. Article XIII

          1. The nationality of a boat must not be concealed in...

      11. Article XIV

          1. No fishing boat shall anchor, between sunset and sunrise, on...

          2. This prohibition shall not, however, apply to anchorings which may...

      12. Article XV

          1. Boats arriving on the fishing grounds shall not either place...

      13. Article XVI

          1. Whenever, with a view of drift-net fishing, decked boats and...

          2. The decked boats, on their part, shall shoot their nets...

          3. As a rule, if decked boats shoot their nets to...

      14. Article XVII

          1. No net or any other fishing engine shall be set...

      15. Article XVIII

          1. No fisherman shall make fast or hold on his boat...

      16. Article XIX

          1. When trawl fishermen are in sight of drift-net or of...

      17. Article XX

          1. When nets belonging to different fishermen get foul of each...

          2. All responsibility shall cease if the impossibility of disengaging the...

      18. Article XXI

          1. When a boat fishing with long lines entangles her lines...

      19. Article XXII

          1. Except in cases of salvage and the cases to which...

      20. Article XXIII

          1. The use of any instrument or engine which serves only...

          2. The presence of any such engine on board a boat...

          3. The high contracting parties engage to take the necessary measures...

      21. Articles XXIV—XXIX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      22. Article XXX

          1. The commanders of the cruizers of the Signatory Powers shall...

          2. They shall draw up, if there is occasion for it,...

          3. The commander of the cruizer may, if the case appears...

      23. Article XXXI

          1. The formal statement referred to in the preceding Article shall...

          2. The accused and the witnesses shall be entitled to add,...

      24. Article XXXII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      25. Article XXXIII

          1. When the act alleged is not of a serious character,...

          2. Where one of the parties is not in a position...

          3. One copy of this document shall remain on board the...

          4. Where, on the contrary, the parties do not consent to...

      26. Articles XXXIV—XXXIX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      27. Additional Article

          1. . . . . . . . . . ....

          2. In witness whereof the Plenipotentiaries have signed the present convention,...

          3. Done at the Hague, in six copies, the 6th May...

   2. SECOND SCHEDULE

      1. . . . . . . . . . ....