Behring Sea Award Act 1894

3 Orders in Council

(1) Her Majesty the Queen in Council may make, revoke and alter Orders for carrying into effect the scheduled provisions, and this Act, and every such Order shall be forthwith laid before both Houses of Parliament and published in the London Gazette, and shall have effect as if enacted in this Act.

(2) If there is any contravention of any regulation made by any such Order, any person committing, procuring, aiding, or abetting such contravention shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds.

(3) An Order in Council under this Act may provide, that such officers of the United States of America as are specified in the Order may, in respect of offences under this Act, exercise the like powers under this Act as may be exercised by a commissioned officer of Her Majesty in relation to a British ship, and the equipment and certificate thereof, or such of those powers as appear to Her Majesty in Council to be exerciseable under the law of the United States of America against ships of the United States ; and that such British officers as are specified in the Order may exercise the powers conferred by this Act, with any necessary modifications specified in the Order, in relation to a ship of the United States of America, and the equipment and certificate thereof.