Merchant Shipping Act 1894

Appointment of medical inspector, and regulations as to supply of anti-scorbutics in colonies.

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205.—The governor of a British possession shall have the power in that possession—

(a) of appointing medical inspectors of seamen, of charging fees for medical examinations by those inspectors, and of determining the remuneration to be paid to those inspectors; and,

(b) subject to the laws of that possession, to make regulations concerning the supply in that possession of anti-scorbutics for the use of ships, and anti-scorbutics duly supplied in accordance with those regulations shall be deemed to be fit and proper for the use of ships.