Fisheries Act, 1891

Construction and title of this Part of Act.

48 & 49 Vict. c. 70.

6.(1) This Part of this Act shall be construed as one with the Sea Fisheries Act, 1883, and, so far as relates to Scotland and the parts of the sea adjoining Scotland, also as one with the Sea Fisheries (Scotland) Amendment Act, 1885.

(2) In particular, the powers of making Orders in Council conferred by sections three and twenty-three of the Sea Fisheries Act, 1883, may be exercised for the purposes of this Part of this Act, and section twenty-three of the said Act shall, for the purpose of any such Order, apply as if the Schedule to this Act were the First Schedule to that Act, and the Declaration referred to in this Act were the Convention referred to in that Act.

(3) The Sea Fisheries Act, 1883, the Sea Fisheries (Scotland) Amendment Act, 1885, and this Part of this Act may be cited collectively as the Sea Fisheries Acts, 1883 to 1891.

[Subs. (4) rep. 8 Edw. 7. c. 49 (S.L.R.).]