§ MR. CATHCART WASON (Orkney and Shetland)I beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland if, in view of the impossibility of enforcing Sub-section 6 of Clause 3 of The Whale Fisheries (Scotland) Act, 1907, providing that whales shall not be killed within a distance of forty miles from the coast, he will take power to prohibit the landing of whales during such period as the Fishery Board may from time to time prescribe.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR SCOTLAND (Mr. SINCLAIR,) ForfarshireAny person holding a licence to shoot and land whales, who contravenes the subsection referred to, apart from the penalty incurred runs the serious risk of losing his licence under Subsection 8, Section 2 of the Act. I have no reason to suppose that this consideration will not have due weight with licence-holders.