HC Deb 28 May 1894 vol 24 c1422
SIR G. BADEN-POWELL

I beg to ask the Attorney General whether the recommendations as to the Regulations for the fur seal fishery made by the Tribunal of Arbitration which sat in Paris are binding on British subjects before they have been embodied in an Act of Parliament?

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir J. RIGBY,) Forfar

They would not be binding on British subjects so as to make them liable for penalties before being embodied in an Act of Parliament, but they have been so embodied, and I understand the embodiment took place before any infringement could be made.