Sea Fisheries Act, 1868 Order in Council.

This Order applies selected provisions of the Sea Fisheries Act, 1868 to Jersey. The Act carries into effect a Convention between the United Kingdom and France concerning fisheries in the seas adjoining the British Islands and France and amends the Laws relating to British sea fisheries. The provisions of the Act that apply to Jersey concern, among other things: (a) in relation with the Convention, official papers that a sea-fishing boat, within the exclusive fishery limits of the British Islands and of every British sea-fishing boat outside of those limits, shall have on board; (b) in relation with oyster fisheries, the recovery of penalties, jurisdiction and legal proceedings; (c) the power of Her Majesty to provide, by Order in Council, for exemption from any taxes or other dues of any foreign sea-fishing boats entering British ports due to bad weather.