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Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967

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Section 25.

SCHEDULE 1Increase of Penalties

EnactmentOld penaltyNew penalty
Merchant Shipping Act 1894
Section 281(2) (Failure to post up passenger certificate).A fine not exceeding £10.On summary conviction, a fine not exceeding £20.
Section 281(3) (Going to sea without posting up passenger certificate).In the case of the owner, a fine not exceeding £100, and in the case of the master, a fine not exceeding £20.On summary conviction, in the case of the owner, a fine not exceeding £200, and in the case of the master a fine not exceeding £50.
Section 283 (Carrying passengers in excess).A fine not exceeding £20 and an additional fine not exceeding five shillings for every passenger above the number allowed by the passenger steamer's certificate, or if the fare of any passenger aboard exceeds five shillings, not exceeding double the amount of the fares of all the passengers above the amount so allowed, reckoned at the highest rate of fare payable by any passenger aboard.Irrespective of the number of passengers, on summary conviction, a fine not exceeding £400; and, on conviction on indictment, a fine.
Merchant Shipping Act 1906
Section 21 (Non-compliance with provisions as to passenger steamers).A fine not exceeding £10 for each passenger carried.Irrespective of the number of passengers, on summary conviction, a fine not exceeding £400; and, on conviction on indictment, a fine.
Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1949.
Section 12(3)(a) (Going to sea without appropriate certificates).A fine not exceeding £10 for each passenger carried.Irrespective of the number of passengers, on summary conviction, a fine not exceeding £400; and, on conviction on indictment, a fine.

Section 33.

SCHEDULE 2Enactments repealed

ChapterShort TitleExtent of Repeal
22 & 23 Geo. 5. c. 9.The Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act 1932.Section 23.
Sections 40 to 61.
Section 62(2).
Sections 63 to 68.
Sections 70 to 72.
Schedule 2.
1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6. c. 23.The Merchant Shipping Act 1937.The whole Act.
12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6. c. 43.The Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1949.Sections 18 and 20.
In subsection (1) of section 29, paragraph (c) and the words from " unless in the case of " to " Minister otherwise orders ".
1964 c. 47.The Merchant Shipping Act 1964.Section 14.
1965 c. 47.The Merchant Shipping Act 1965.Section 2, and, in Schedule 1, the entry relating to the Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act 1932.

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