# The Whaling Industry (Ship) Regulations 1955, Note: Explanatory note


These Regulations revoke and re-enact with amendments the Whaling Industry (Ship) Regulations, 1953, as amended by the Whaling Industry (Ship) (Amendment) Regulations, 1954 and the Whaling Industry (Ship) (Amendment) Regulations, 1955, and give effect, in relation to United Kingdom and Colonial ships, to certain resolutions of the International Whaling Commission which came into force after those Regulations were made.
The principal resolutions to which effect is given by these Regulations are as follows:—
(1) Prohibiting the killing of blue whales in the Antarctic before 1st February in any year; for the season 1954–55 the prohibition operated until 21st January, 1955.
(2) Reducing to 15,000 the total number of blue whale units that may be taken in any year in waters south of 40° south latitude by catchers attached to factory ships of the powers bound by the resolutions of the Commission;
(3) Requiring the return of daily statistics of whales taken after the catch is deemed by the Bureau of International Whaling Statistics to have reached 13,500 blue whale units.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1955/1973/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/whaling-industry-ship-regulations-1955/note
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