Whaling Industry (Regulation) Act 1934.
Type of law
Legislation
Date of original text
Abstract
The Act gives effect to the Geneva Whaling Convention of 1931. The Act applies only in relation of whalebone whales and baleen whales (sect. 1). Sections 4, 5 and 6 provide for licencing of whaling ships and whale-oil factories and conditions attached to a licence. (19 sections, 1 Schedule)
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Long title of text
An Act to enable effect to be given to a Convention for the regulation of Whaling, signed at Geneva on behalf of His Majesty on the twenty-fourth day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-one; to prohibit the taking or treating of whales within coastal waters of the United kingdom; and for purposes conncetd with the matters aforesaid.
Date of consolidation/reprint
Notes
Official Revised Edition of 31 October 1978 of an Act of 1934.
Repealed
No
Source language
English
Legislation status
in force
Legislation Amendment
No
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