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WHALING INDUSTRY
Made
2nd December 1958
Coming into Operation
18th December 1958
The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation in exercise of his powers under Sections 3, 5, 6, 8 and 18 of the Whaling Industry (Regulation) Act, 1934, as amended by Part III of the Sea Fish Industry Act, 1938 and under the Whaling Industry (Sperm Whales) Order, 1937(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf and after consultation with the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State for Scotland, and, in relation to Regulation 2 of these Regulations with the approval of the Treasury, hereby makes in relation to ships the following Regulations:-
1.-(1) These Regulations shall come into operation on the eighteenth day of December, 1958, and may be cited as The Whaling Industry (Ship) (Amendment) Regulations, 1958.
(2) The Interpretation Act, 1889, shall apply to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
2.
3. Paragraph 1 (d) of Part I of the Second Schedule to the 1955 Regulations shall be read and have effect as though for the reference to 70° west there was substituted a reference to 60° west.
4. The Whaling Industry (Ship) (Amendment) Regulations, 1956(3) are hereby revoked and paragraphs 1 (b) of Part I and 1 (b) and 7 of Part II of the Second Schedule to the 1955 Regulations shall be read and have effect as if the said Regulations of 1956 had not been made.
Given under the Official Seal of the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation this second day of December, 1958.
T. F. Bird
An Under Secretary of the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation
We approve the making of Regulation 2 of these Regulations
Harwood Harrison
R. Brooman-White
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
Dated this first day of December, 1958
These Regulations revoke the Whaling Industry (Ship) (Amendment) Regulations, 1956, amend the Whaling Industry (Ship) Regulations, 1955, and give effect in relation to United Kingdom and Colonial ships to certain regulations of the International Whaling Commission which came into force after those Regulations were made.
Under the Regulations:-
The quota of blue whale units which may be taken in Antarctic waters in any year (which was reduced to 14,500 by the 1956 Regulations) is restored to 15,000;
The daily return of statistics of whales taken is once again required after the catch is deemed by the Bureau of International Whaling Statistics to have reached 13,500;
The daily messing charge to be paid by a Whale Fishery Inspector to the master of a ship is raised from five shillings to one pound;
The western boundary of the Antarctic Sanctuary for humpback whales is modified.
(Rev. VII, p. 932: 1937, p. 747).
(1955 II, p. 2416).
(1956 II, p. 2221).