Seal Fisheries (North Pacific) Act, 1912

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Power to extend certain provisions outside the United Kingdom.

5.—(1) His Majesty may by Order in Council extend the provisions of the last two foregoing sections to any part of His Majesty's dominions outside the United Kingdom to any British protectorate and to Cyprus, subject to such modifications and adaptations as may appear to him to be necessary:

Provided that those provisions shall not be so extended to a self-governing dominion except with the consent of the Governor General in Council or Governor in Council of the dominion.

(2) For the purposes of this section, “self-governing dominion” means the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, and Newfoundland.