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Code · STATUTE-COMPILATIONS · Whaling Convention Act of 1949 · Sec. 5

Sec. 5. **[**[16 U.S.C. 916c](/us/usc/t16/s916c)**]**

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## Sec. 5 **[**[16 U.S.C. 916c](/us/usc/t16/s916c)**]** ###
(a)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 Act, or of any regulation of the Secretary of the Interior1;
(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 Act, or of any regulation of the Secretary of the Interior1; (3)2 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 the Interior1, or to refuse to permit any officer authorized to enforce the convention, the regulations of the Commission, this Act, and the regulations of the Secretary of the Interior1, to inspect such record or report at any reasonable time. 2So in law. Probably should be “; or (3)”. ###
(b)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 Act, or by any regulation adopted by the Commission, or by any regulation of the Secretary of the Interior1.
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