http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/24-25/49/section/8Whaling 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 81For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this Act, a whale fishery inspector, on producing on demand evidence of the fact that he is such an inspector,—amay board or enter any ship or factory which he has reason to believe is used for taking or for treating whales, and inspect the ship or factory and its plant and equipment; andbmay, in the case of such a ship as aforesaid, require the master and crew, or any of them, or in the case of such a factory as aforesaid, require the occupier or manager thereof and the employees therein or any of them, to produce all such licences, records and other documents as the inspector considers it necessary to inspect, and to answer all such inquiries as he considers it necessary to make; andcmay take copies of, or extracts from, any documents produced to him.2Any whale fishery inspector specially authorised in writing in that behalf by the Board of Trade may go on board any British ship to which this Act applies which is used for treating whales, and shall, during such period as may be specified in his authority, be entitled to remain on board the ship, to be provided with subsistence and accommodation therein and to be present at all operations in connection with the treating of whales on board the ship.A whale fishery inspector shall, in respect of each day during which he is provided in pursuance of this subsection with subsistence and accommodation on board a ship, pay to the master of the ship such sum as may be prescribed by regulations made by the licensing authority with the approval of the Treasury.3Every person who without reasonable excuse refuses to produce to a whale fishery inspector any document which he is required under this section to produce, or without reasonable excuse refuses to answer, or answers falsely, any inquiry duly made of him by such an inspector, or otherwise wilfully obstructs, or without reasonable excuse refuses facilities to, such an inspector in the discharge of his functions under this section, shall be liable on summary conviction, or on conviction on indictment, to a fine.4In this section the expression “whale fishery inspector” means—aany person appointed by, or under the authority of, the Board of Trade to be such an inspector;bany commissioned officer of any of His Majesty’s ships on full pay.Words inserted by Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29, SIF 52:1), s. 35(6)(a)Words substituted by Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29, SIF 52:1), s. 35(6)(a)Words in s. 8(3) substituted (12.3.2015) by The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Fines on Summary Conviction) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/664), reg. 1(1), Sch. 4 para. 2(6) (with reg. 5(1))