F1part ii
Supplemental
25 Application of other enactments, etc.
1
Any reference (however phrased) in any statutory provision not contained in this Act to the registration of a fishing vessel under any of the enactments specified in section 13(2) shall, so far as the context permits, be construed as, or as including, a reference to the registration of a fishing vessel under this Part; and connected phrases shall be construed accordingly.
2
The following provisions of the 1894 Act, namely—
a
section 69 (penalty for unduly assuming British character), and
b
section 71 (penalty for acquiring ownership if unqualified),
shall not apply to a registered vessel; and section 72 of that Act (liabilities of unregistered ships) shall not apply to a fishing vessel (whether registered or not).
3
Sections 8 and 9 of the M1Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (general powers of British sea-fishery officers and powers of sea-fishery officers to enforce conventions) shall apply in relation to—
a
this Part of this Act, and
b
any regulations made under it,
as they apply in relation to any order mentioned in section 8 of that Act and in relation to any convention mentioned in section 9 of that Act respectively; and sections 10 to 12 and 14 of that Act (offences and supplemental provisions as to legal proceedings) shall apply accordingly.
4
A document purporting to be a copy of any information contained in an entry in the register and to be certified as a true copy by an authorised officer of the Secretary of State shall be evidence (and, in Scotland, sufficient evidence) of the matters stated in the document.
Ss. 12-25 (Pt. II) repealed (21.3.1994) by 1993 c. 22, s. 8(4), Sch. 5 Pt.1; S.I. 1993/3137, art. 3(1), Sch.1.