# Sea Fisheries Act 1883 (repealed 19.11.1998), Schedule FIRST: International Convention for the purpose of regulating the Police of the Fisheries in the North Sea outside Territorial Waters

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; His Majesty the Emperor of Germany, King of Prussia; His Majesty the King of the Belgians; His Majesty the King of Denmark; the President of the French Republic; and His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, having recognised the necessity of regulating the police of the fisheries in the North Sea, outside territorial waters, have resolved to conclude for this purpose a Convention, and have named their Plenipotentiaries as follows:—
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Honourable William Stuart, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, &c., Her Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Hague; Charles Malcolmn Kennedy, Esq., Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, &c., Head of the Commercial Department of the Foreign Office: and Charles Cecil Trevor, Esq., Barrister at Law, Assistant Secretary to the Board of Trade, &c.;
His Majesty the Emperor of Germany, King of Prussia, Veit Richard von Schmidthals, Knight of the Order of the Red Eagle of the Third Class, and of the Order of St. John, &c., Councillor of Legation, his Charge d’Affaires at the Hague; and Peter Christian Kinch Donner, Knight of the Order of the Red Eagle of the fourth class with the Sword, and of the Crown of the fourth class, &c., his Councillor of State, Captain in the Navy, on the Reserve;
His Majesty the King of the Belgians, the Baron d’Anethan, Commander of the Order of Leopold, &c., his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Hague; and M. Leopold Orban, Commander of the Order of Leopold, &c., his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Director-General of the Political Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
His Majesty the King of Denmark, Carl Adolph Bruun, Knight of the Order of the Danebrog, &c., Captain in the Navy;
The President of the French Republic, the Count Lefebvre de Behaine, Commander of the National Order of the Legion of Honour, &c., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the French Republic at the Hague; and M. Gustave Emile Mancel, Officer of the National Order of the Legion of Honour, &c., Commissary of Marine;
His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, the Jonkheer Willem Frederik Rochussen, Commander of the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands, &c., his Minister of Foreign Affairs; and Eduard Nicolaas Rahusen, Knight of the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands, &c., President of the Committee for Sea Fisheries;
Who, after having communicated the one to the other their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles:—

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/46-47/22/schedule/FIRST (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fisheries-act-1883-repealed-19111998/schedule-FIRST
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