Merchant Shipping Act 1894
Penalty for landing steerage passengers at wrong place.
330.—If a steerage passenger is landed from any ship, whether an emigrant ship or not, at any port other than the port at which he has contracted to land, unless with his previous consent, or unless the landing is rendered necessary by perils of the sea or other unavoidable accident, the master of the ship shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.
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A fine of £50 translates into a Class B fine, not exceeding €4,000, as provided (4.01.2011) by Fines Act 2010 (8/2010), ss. 3 and 5, table ref. no. 8, S.I. No. 662 of 2010.