Merchant Shipping Act 1906

Part IU.K. Safety

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Part IIU.K. Passenger and Emigrant Ships

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Part IIIU.K. Seamen’s Food

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Part IVU.K. Provisions as to Relief and Repatriation of Distressed Seamen, and Seamen left behind Abroad

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Part VU.K. Miscellaneous

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F2853Amendment of 57 & 58 Vict, c. 60. s. 48.U.K.

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[F3056 Secound mate certificates allowed in small foreign-going sailing ships. U.K.

The following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section ninety-two of the principal Act (which relates to the certificates of competency to be held by officers of ships):—

“(b)If the ship is of one hundred tons burden or upwards with at least one officer besides the master holding a certificate not lower than that of—

(i)mate in the case of a home trade passenger ship;

(ii)secound mate in the case of a foreign-going sailing ship of not more than two hundred tons burden ; and

(iii)only mate in the case of any other foreign-going ship.”]

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72 Delivery of wreck to receiver.U.K.

Section five hundred and eighteen of the principal Act shall apply to wreck found or taken possession of outside the limits of the United Kingdom, and brought within the limits of the United Kingdom, as it applies to wreck found or taken possession of within the limits of the United Kingdom.

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75 Substitution of ship surveyor for shipwright surveyor.U.K.

(1)Any person appointed to be a surveyor of ships under section seven hundred and twenty-four of the principal Act may be appointed either as a ship surveyor or as an engineer surveyor, or as both, and any reference in that section or in any other section of the principal Act to a shipwright surveyor shall be construed as a reference to a ship surveyor.

(2)Any surveyor of ships who before the passing of this Act has been appointed as a shipwright surveyor, or both as a shipwright surveyor and an engineer surveyor, shall be deemed to have been appointed as a ship surveyor, or both as a ship surveyor and an engineer surveyor, as the case may be.

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(4)The Board of Trade may, under subsection (2) of section seven hundred and twenty-four of the principal Act, in addition to appointing a surveyor-general of ships, appoint such other principal officers in connection with the survey of ships and other matters incidental thereto, as the Board think fit.

76 Return to be furnished by masters of ships as to passengers.U.K.

(1)The master of every ship, whether a British or foreign ship, which carries any passenger to a place in the United Kingdom from any place out of the United Kingdom, or from any place in the United Kingdom to any place out of the United Kingdom, shall furnish to such person and in such manner as the Board of Trade direct a return giving the total number of any passengers so carried, distinguishing, if so directed by the Board, the total number of any class of passengers so carried, and giving, if the Board of Trade so direct, such particulars with respect to passengers as may be for the time being required by the Board.

(2)Any passenger shall furnish the master of the ship with any information required by him for the purpose of the return.

(3)If the master of a ship fails to make a return as required by this section, or makes a false return, and if any passenger refuses to give any information required by the master of the ship for the purpose of the return required by this section [F42, for that purpose, gives to the master information which he knows to be false or recklessly gives to him information which is false], the master or passenger shall be liable for each offence on summary conviction to a fine [F43not exceeding [F44fifty pounds][F44level 2 on the standard scale]in the case of a failure or refusal and [F45two hundred pounds][F45level 3 on the standard scale]in the case of a false return or false information].

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78 Dispensing powers of the Board of Trade.U.K.

(1)The Board of Trade may, if they think fit, and upon such conditions (if any) as they think fit to impose, exempt any ship from any specified requirement contained in, or prescribed in pursuance of, the Merchant Shipping Acts, or dispense with the observance of any such requirement in the case of any ship, if they are satisfied that that requirement has been substantially complied with in the case of that ship, or that compliance with the requirement is unnecessary in the circumstances of the case, and that the action taken or provision made as respects the subject-matter of the requirement in the case of the ship is as effective as, or more effective than, actual compliance with the requirement.

(2)The Board of Trade shall annually lay before both Houses of Parliament a special report stating the cases in which they have exercised their powers under this section during the preceding year, and the grounds upon which they have acted in each case.

79 Power to appoint advisory committees.U.K.

(1)The Board of Trade may, if they think fit, appoint committees for the purpose of advising them when considering the making or alteration of any rules, regulations, or scales for the purpose of the Merchant Shipping Acts, consisting of such persons as they may appoint representing the interests principally affected, or having special knowledge of the subject matter.

(2)There shall be paid to the members of any such committee, out of moneys provided by Parliament, such travelling and other allowances as the Board of Trade fix with the consent of the Treasury.

(3)Committees may be appointed under this section to advise the Board of Trade specially as regards any special rules, regulations, or scales, or generally as regards any class or classes of rules, regulations, or scales which the Board may assign to them.

80 Power to register Government ships under the Merchant Shipping Acts.U.K.

(1)His Majesty may by Order in Council make regulations with respect to the manner in which Government ships may be registered as British ships [F47in the United Kingdom under the Merchant Shipping (Registration, etc.) Act 1993, and the Merchant Shipping Acts,] subject to any exceptions and modifications which may be made by Order in Council, either generally or as respects any special class of Government ships, shall apply to Government ships registered in accordance with those regulations as if they were registered [F47in accordance with that Act].

(2)Nothing in this Act shall affect the powers of the Legislature of any British possession to regulate any Government ships under the control of the Government of that possession.

(3)In this section the expression Government ships means ships not forming part of His Majesty’s Navy which belong to His Majesty, or are held by any person on behalf of or for the benefit of the Crown, and for that reason cannot be registered under the principal Act.

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82 Amendment of procedure in Scotland.U.K.

The principal Act in its application to Scotland, is amended as follows:—

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(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F52

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Part VIU.K. Supplemental

84 Construction of references to Merchant Shipping Acts.U.K.

(1)In this Act the expression principal Act means the M1Merchant Shipping Act 1894, and the expression Merchant Shipping Acts means the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1900, and this Act.

(2)Any reference in this Act to any provision of the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1900, which has been amended by any subsequent Act or is amended by this Act, shall be construed as a reference to the provision as so amended.

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86†Short title and commencement.U.K.

(1)This Act may be cited as the Merchant Shipping Act 1906, and shall be construed as one with the principal Act, and the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1900, and this Act may be cited together as the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1906.

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