5Application of ss. 8 and 10 of Sea Fisheries Act 1968.

For the purpose of enforcing the enactments relating to illegal trawling, section 8(1) to (4), and section 10(1), (2) and (4), of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (which relate respectively to the powers of British sea-fishery officers, and the protection of and the punishment for assaulting or obstructing sea-fishery officers) shall apply as if they were enacted in this Act with the following modifications—

a

for any reference to a British sea-fishery officer or a British or foreign sea-fishery officer there shall be substituted a reference to a superintendent of the herring fishery or other officer employed in the execution of the Herring Fishery (Scotland) Acts ;

b

in section 8, for any reference to the provisions of the said Act of 1968 therein mentioned there shall be substituted a reference to the enactments relating to illegal trawling ; and

c

in section 10, for any reference to section 8 or 9 of the said Act of 1968 there shall be substituted a reference to section 8 of that Act as applied by this section.