http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/24-25/49/section/1Whaling Industry (Regulation) Act 1934An Act to enable effect to be given to a Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, signed at Geneva on behalf of His Majesty on the twenty-fourth day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-one; to prohibit the taking or treating of whales within the coastal waters of the United Kingdom; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.1978-10-31texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2015-09-16Expert Participation2015-03-12 <P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/24-25/49/section/1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo5/24-25/49/section/1" id="section-1"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="d29p51" CommentaryRef="c6064391">1</Addition></Pnumber><P1para><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/24-25/49/section/1/1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo5/24-25/49/section/1/1" id="section-1-1"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="d29p51" CommentaryRef="c6064391">1</Addition></Pnumber><P2para><Text><Addition ChangeId="d29p51" CommentaryRef="c6064391"> Subject to the provisions of this section, references in this Act to whales shall be construed as references to any cetacean, and the reference in section 6(4)( </Addition><Emphasis><Addition ChangeId="d29p51" CommentaryRef="c6064391">a</Addition></Emphasis><Addition ChangeId="d29p51" CommentaryRef="c6064391"> ) to whale products shall be construed accordingly. </Addition></Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/24-25/49/section/1/2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo5/24-25/49/section/1/2" id="section-1-2"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="d29p51" CommentaryRef="c6064391">2</Addition></Pnumber><P2para><Text><Addition ChangeId="d29p51" CommentaryRef="c6064391">In their application to a ship registered in or licensed under the law of a colony . . . </Addition><CommentaryRef Ref="c6064401"/><Addition ChangeId="d29p51" CommentaryRef="c6064391"> sections 3 to 6 of this Act shall have effect as if references to whales were references only to the following cetaceans, that is to say—</Addition></Text><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/24-25/49/section/1/2/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo5/24-25/49/section/1/2/a" id="section-1-2-a"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="d29p51" CommentaryRef="c6064391">a</Addition></Pnumber><P3para><Text><Addition ChangeId="d29p51" CommentaryRef="c6064391">whales known as whalebone whales or baleen whales; and</Addition></Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/24-25/49/section/1/2/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo5/24-25/49/section/1/2/b" id="section-1-2-b"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="d29p51" CommentaryRef="c6064391">b</Addition></Pnumber><P3para><Text><Addition ChangeId="d29p51" CommentaryRef="c6064391">whales known as sperm whales, spermacet whales, cachalots or pot whales;</Addition></Text></P3para></P3><Text><Addition ChangeId="d29p51" CommentaryRef="c6064391">but Her Majesty may by Order in Council direct that those references shall also include references to all other cetaceans or to any description of other cetaceans specified in the Order.</Addition></Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/24-25/49/section/1/3" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo5/24-25/49/section/1/3" id="section-1-3"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="d29p51" CommentaryRef="c6064391">3</Addition></Pnumber><P2para><Text><Addition ChangeId="d29p51" CommentaryRef="c6064391">An Order under subsection (2) above may provide that in its application by virtue of the Order this Act shall have effect with such exceptions, adaptations or modifications as may be specified in the Order; and any Order under that subsection may be limited so as to apply only in relation to one or more colonies . . . </Addition><CommentaryRef Ref="c6064401"/><Addition ChangeId="d29p51" CommentaryRef="c6064391"> specified in the Order.</Addition></Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/24-25/49/section/1/4" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo5/24-25/49/section/1/4" id="section-1-4"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="d29p51" CommentaryRef="c6064391">4</Addition></Pnumber><P2para><Text><Addition ChangeId="d29p51" CommentaryRef="c6064391">Neither subsection (1) nor subsection (2) above shall be construed as extending, or enabling an Order to extend, to other cetaceans so much of section 3 of this Act as is expressed to apply only to right whales, grey whales, blue whales or fin whales.</Addition></Text></P2para></P2></P1para></P1></P1group></Body></Primary><Commentaries><Commentary id="c6064391" Type="F"><Para><Text>S. 1 substituted by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/29" id="c00020" Year="1981" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="29" Title="Fisheries Act 1981">Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29, SIF 52:1)</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c00021" CitationRef="c00020" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/29/section/35/2" Operative="true" SectionRef="section-35-2">s. 35(2)</CitationSubRef></Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="c6064401" Type="F"><Para><Text>Words repealed by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/43" id="c00022" Year="1989" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="43" Title="Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989">Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43)</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c00023" CitationRef="c00022" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/43/section/1/1" SectionRef="section-1-1">s. 1(1)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c00024" CitationRef="c00022" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1989/43/schedule/1/part/VI" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-1-part-VI">Sch. 1 Pt. VI</CitationSubRef></Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>