Merchant Shipping Act 1894

Penalty for forgery of certificate or declaration.

282

282.—If any person—

(a) knowingly and wilfully makes, or assists in making, or procures to be made, a false or fraudulent declaration of survey or passenger steamer’s certificate; or

(b) forges, assists in forging, procures to be forged, fraudulently alters, assists in fraudulently altering, or procures to be fraudulently altered, any such declaration or certificate, or anything contained in, or any signature to any such declaration or certificate;

that person shall in respect of each offence be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Annotations:

Amendments:

F147

Repealed by Merchant Shipping Act 1992 (2/1992), s. 4 and sch., not commenced as of date of revision.

Modifications (not altering text):

C83

Prospective affecting provision: section repealed by Merchant Shipping Act 1992 (2/1992), s.4 and sch., not commenced as of date of revision.

282.F147[]

C84

Application of section extended (4.10.1968) by Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1968 (17/1968), s. 27(3), S.I. No. 206 of 1968.

Miscellaneous supplementary provisions.

27.— ...

(3) The provisions of sections 280 and 282 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, shall have effect in relation to any certificate which can be issued under this Act as they have effect in relation to a passenger steamer's certificate.

C85

Application of section extended (14.05.1967) by Merchant Shipping Act 1966 (20/1966), s. 4(6)(a), S.I. No. 54 of 1967.

4.— ...

(6) In relation to a certificate issued or extended under this section by a person authorised by the Minister—

(a) the provisions applied by section 27 (8) of the Act of 1952 (which relate to the transmission, cancellation, surrender, posting-up and falsification of certificates issued by the Minister), except section 276 of the Principal Act (transmission of certificates), and

(b) section 5 of the Act of 1952 (fees);

shall apply as they apply in relation to certificates issued by the Minister, but so much of section 6 of the Act of 1952 as requires fees to be paid into or disposed of for the benefit of the Exchequer shall not apply.

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C86

Application of section extended (19.11.1953) by Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1952 (29/1952), s. 27(8), S.I. No. 338 of 1953.

Miscellaneous provisions as to surveys and certificates.

27.— ...

(8) The following provisions of the Principal Act shall apply to and in relation to certificates issued by the Minister, and ships certified, under this Act in the same manner as they apply to and in relation to passenger steamers' certificates and passenger steamers, namely, section 276 (which relates to the transmission of a certificate to the owner of the steamer), section 279 (which relates to the cancellation of certificates), section 280 (which relates to the surrender of certificates no longer in force), section 281 (which relates to the posting up of a certificate on board) and section 282 (which relates to the forging and falsification of certificates).

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Editorial Notes:

E122

Previous affecting provision: application of section extended (3.11.1933) by Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act 1933 (42/1933), s. 65, commenced on enactment; repealed (4.10.1968) by Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1968 (17/1968), s. 31(1) and sch., S.I. No. 206 of 1968.

E123

Previous affecting provision: application of section extended by Merchant Shipping (Convention) Act 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5) c. 50, s. 11(2), not commenced as per s. 29(5) prior to Independence because of repeated Orders in Council postponing commencement and not commenced subsequently; repealed (3.11.1933) by Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act 1933 (42/1933), s. 67(2) and sch. 2 part III, commenced on enactment.