SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 6Alteration of Penalties

PART VIIOther Penalties

The [1970 c. 36.] Merchant Shipping Act 1970

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In section 27(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970 (under which the master or a member of the crew of a ship registered in the United Kingdom who improperly endangers the ship or persons on board the ship is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for up to 2 years or to a fine and on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,000 in some cases and £400 in others)—

a

for the words " or to a fine " there shall be inserted the words " and a fine "; and

b

for the words from " summary conviction " onwards there shall be substiuted the words " summary convicition to a fine not exceeding £1,000 ".