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[CITE: 16USC916c]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                    CHAPTER 14--REGULATION OF WHALING
 
                  SUBCHAPTER II--WHALING CONVENTION ACT
 
Sec. 916c. Unlawful acts


(a) Whaling, transporting, or selling violations; records; reports

    It shall be unlawful for any person subject to the jurisdiction of 
the United States (1) to engage in whaling in violation of the 
convention or of any regulation of the Commission, or of this 
subchapter, or of any regulation of the Secretary of Commerce; (2) to 
ship, transport, purchase, sell, offer for sale, import, export, or have 
in possession any whale or whale products taken or processed in 
violation of the convention, or of any regulation of the Commission, or 
of this subchapter, or of any regulation of the Secretary of Commerce; 
(3) to fail to make, keep, submit, or furnish any record or report 
required of him by the convention, or by any regulation of the 
Commission, or by any regulation of the Secretary of Commerce, or to 
refuse to permit any officer authorized to enforce the convention, the 
regulations of the Commission, this subchapter, and the regulations of 
the Secretary of Commerce, to inspect such record or report at any 
reasonable time.

(b) Acts of commission or omission

    It shall be unlawful for any person or vessel subject to the 
jurisdiction of the United States to do any act prohibited or to fail to 
do any act required by the convention, or by this subchapter, or by any 
regulation adopted by the Commission, or by any regulation of the 
Secretary of Commerce.

(Aug. 9, 1950, ch. 653, Sec. 5, 64 Stat. 422; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 4, 
eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    Transfer of functions to Secretary of Commerce from Secretary of the 
Interior by Reorg. Plan No. 4 of 1970, see note set out under section 
916 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 916f of this title.
