Merchant Shipping Act 1894
Transmission of certificate.
276.—(1) The Board of Trade shall transmit the passenger steamer’s certificate in duplicate to a superintendent or some other public officer at the port mentioned by the owner of the steamer for the purpose, or at the port where the owner or his agent resides, or where the steamer has been surveyed or is for the time lying.
(2) The Board of Trade shall cause notice of the transmission to be given to the master or owner or his agent, and the officer to whom the certificate has been transmitted shall, on the owner, master, or agent applying and paying the proper fee and other sums (if any) mentioned in this Act as payable in that behalf, deliver to him both copies of the certificate.
(3) In proving the issue of a passenger steamer’s certificate it shall be sufficient to show that the certificate was duly received by the said officer, and that due notice of the transmission was given to the owner, master, or agent.
Annotations:
Amendments:
F141
Repealed by Merchant Shipping Act 1992 (2/1992), s. 4 and sch., not commenced as of date of revision.
Modifications (not altering text):
C68
Prospective affecting provision: section repealed by Merchant Shipping Act 1992 (2/1992), s. 4 and sch., not commenced as of date of revision.
276.—F141[…]
C69
Application of section restricted (14.05.1967) by Merchant Shipping Act 1966 (20/1966), s. 4(6)(a), S.I. No. 54 of 1967.
Cargo ship safety construction certificates and exemption certificates.
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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C70
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:
E113
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.