Merchant Shipping Act 1894
Application of Part II. to colony by colonial legislatures.
264.— If the legislature of a British possession, by any law, apply or adapt to any British ships registered at, trading with, or being at, any port in that possession, and to the owners, masters, and crews of those ships, any provisions of this Part of this Act which do not otherwise so apply, such law shall have effect throughout Her Majesty dominions, and in all places where Her Majesty has jurisdiction in the same manner as if it were enacted in this Act.
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C45
Application of Part extended for purposes of ss. 260-266 (1.06.1907) by Merchant Shipping Act 1906 (6 Edw. 7) c. 48, s. 49(3), commenced as per s. 86(2). "This Part" referred to below is Part IV (ss. 28-49), Provisions as to Relief and Repatriation of Distressed Seamen, and Seamen left behind Abroad. Note effect of Merchant Shipping Act, 1906, Adaptation Order 1942 (S.R.& O. No. 484 of 1942).
Definitions of "proper authority" and "seamen"
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(3) The provisions of this Part of this Act shall, for the purpose of sections two hundred and sixty to two hundred and sixty-six of the Principal Act (which relate to the application of Part II of that Act), be construed as if they were contained in Part II of that Act.