http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/24-25/49/section/10Whaling 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 101In any proceedings taken by virtue of this Act against the owner or charterer of a ship or against the occupier of a factory in respect of any act or omission on the part of another person, it shall be a good defence for the owner, charterer or occupier, as the case may be, to prove that the act or omission took place without his knowledge or connivance and was not facilitated by any negligence on his part.2Summary proceedings taken by virtue of this Act against any person for an offence committed at sea, may be commenced at any time within six months from the date on which that person first lands in the United Kingdom after the commission of the offence.3In any proceedings a document purporting to be a licence or permit granted under this Act shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed to be such a licence or permit, as the case may be.4Proceedings against any person for the purposes of this Act may be taken before the court having jurisdiction in the place where that person is for the time being.Words substituted by Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29, SIF 52:1), s. 35(7)