{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-1891/schedule/part-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-1891/schedule/part-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/54-55/37",
  "legislation_title": "Fisheries Act 1891",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-1891",
  "path": "schedule/part/5",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "ARTICLE V",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In the Kingdom of Belgium the tribunal which has cognizance of an infraction of the North Sea Fisheries Convention of the 6th May 1882, or of Article 4 of the present Declaration, shall be empowered to award damages for injury to person or property at the request of the injured party and at the suit of the Official Prosecutor.\nThe execution of awards of damages shall be effected, on the application of the Official Prosecutor, by the competent Administration, which will advance the costs and recover them from the condemned parties according to the usual process of law in such cases.\nIn the United Kingdom the Court before which proceedings are taken for the above-mentioned infractions shall be empowered, at the suit of the Official Prosecutor on the request of the injured party, to award damages for injury to person or property, and the Official Prosecutor shall, at his own cost, recover the sum so awarded, or so much thereof as is possible, from the parties liable.\nThe amount of damages recovered, as stipulated above, shall be remitted free of cost to the injured party through the proper diplomatic channel.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/54-55/37/schedule/part/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:33:10.263947+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}