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Explanatory note

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These Regulations revoke the Whaling Industry (Ship) (Amendment) Regulations, 1956, amend the Whaling Industry (Ship) Regulations, 1955, and give effect in relation to United Kingdom and Colonial ships to certain regulations of the International Whaling Commission which came into force after those Regulations were made.

Under the Regulations:—

  1. (1)

    The quota of blue whale units which may be taken in Antarctic waters in any year (which was reduced to 14,500 by the 1956 Regulations) is restored to 15,000;

  2. (2)

    The daily return of statistics of whales taken is once again required after the catch is deemed by the Bureau of International Whaling Statistics to have reached 13,500;

  3. (3)

    The daily messing charge to be paid by a Whale Fishery Inspector to the master of a ship is raised from five shillings to one pound;

  4. (4)

    The western boundary of the Antarctic Sanctuary for humpback whales is modified.