Merchant Shipping Act 1894

368Power for legislature of India to apply Part III.

(1)The provisions of this Part of this Act (other than the provisions relating to passenger steamers only) shall not apply to British India, except as in this section provided.

(2)The Governor-General of India in Council may, by any Act passed for the purpose, declare that all or any provisions of this Part of this Act shall apply to the carriage of steerage passengers upon any voyage from any specified port in British India to any other specified port whatsoever; and may for the purposes of this Part of this Act—

(a)fix dietary scales for the voyage, and authorise the substitution of those scales for the scale enacted by this Act;

(b)determine what shall be deemed to be the length of any such voyage;

(c)determine the persons or officers who in British India shall take the place of emigration officers and officers of customs in the British Islands;

(d)declare the space necessary for steerage passengers, and the age at which two children shall be treated as one statute adult, in ships clearing out from any port in British India; and

(e)authorise the employment on board any ship of a medical practitioner duly qualified according to Indian law ; and

(f)provide for the recovery and application in British India of fines and sums of money under this Part of the Act,

and the provisions of any such Act while in force shall have effect without as well as within British India as if enacted by this Act.

(3)Provided that any such Act shall be of no effect under this section, unless it be reserved for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure thereon, or contain a suspending clause providing that the Act shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's pleasure-thereon has been publicly signified in British India.