C185

Board of Trade assigned powers in relation to schedule (1.07.1907) by Merchant Shipping Act 1906 (6 Edw. 7) c. 48, s. 17, in effect as per s. 86(2).

Regulations substituted for Schedules 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 of principal Act.

17.—(1) The Board of Trade may prescribe regulations, scales, conditions, and forms in substitution for those contained in the Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Schedules of the principal Act (which relate to the number of persons carried on emigrant ships, the accommodation for steerage passengers on emigrant ships, the provisions and water to be issued to steerage passengers on emigrant ships, the carriage of horses and cattle on emigrant ships, and the forms to be used under Part III. of that Act).

(2) Any reference in the Merchant Shipping Acts or in any other Act or document to any of those schedules shall be construed as a reference to the corresponding regulations, scales, conditions, or forms prescribed by the Board of Trade under this section.