Unregistered ships and ships registered outside the United Kingdom
92Unregistered ships
The Board of Trade may make regulations specifying any description of British ships which are not registered in the United Kingdom or elsewhere and directing that such of the provisions of this Act and of regulations and rules made thereunder as may be specified in the regulations shall extend to ships of that description and to masters and seamen employed in them, with such exceptions, adaptations or modifications as may be so specified.
93Ships registered in independent Commonwealth countries
(1)Her Majesty may by Order in Council direct that such of the provisions of this Act and of regulations and rules made thereunder as may be specified in the Order shall extend, with such exceptions, adaptations or modifications as may be so specified, to ships registered in any independent Commonwealth country so specified and to masters and seamen employed in them.
(2)The modifications that may be made by an Order in Council under this section with respect to the ships registered in any country and the masters and seamen employed in them include the substitution, for any provision of this Act or of regulations or rules made thereunder, of a corresponding provision of the law of that country, with such exceptions, adaptations or modifications as appear to Her Majesty expedient.
(3)In this section " independent Commonwealth country " means any country for the time being specified in section 1 (3) of the [1948 c. 56.] British Nationality Act 1948.
94Power to extend Act to certain territories outside the United Kingdom, and to ships registered therein
Her Majesty may by Order in Council give with respect to any of the following territories, that is to say—
(a)the Isle of Man ;
(b)any of the Channel Islands ;
(c)any colony;
(d)any territory outside Her Majesty's dominions in which for the time being Her Majesty has jurisdiction ;
either or both of the following directions—
(i)that such of the provisions of this Act and of regulations and rules made thereunder as may be specified in the Order shall apply to ships registered in that territory and to masters and seamen employed in them, with such exceptions, adaptations or modifications as may be specified in the Order, as they apply to ships registered in the United Kingdom and to masters and seamen employed in them ;
(ii)that such of the provisions of this Act and of any regulations and rules made thereunder as may be specified in the Order shall extend to that territory, with such exceptions, adaptations or modifications as may be specified in the Order, as part of the law of that territory.