Merchant Shipping Act 1894
Forfeiture of licence.
344.—(1) A passage broker’s licence shall, unless forfeited, remain in force until the thirty-first day of December in the year in which it is granted, and for thirty-one days afterwards.
(2) Any court, when convicting a passage broker of an offence under this Part of th is Act or of any breach or non-performance of the requirements thereof, may order that his licence be forfeited, and the same shall be forfeited accordingly.
(3) The court shall forthwith send to the Board of Trade a notice of any such order.
Annotations:
Modifications (not altering text):
C103
Application of section extended (1.06.1907) by Merchant Shipping Act 1906 (6 Edw. 7) c. 48, s. 23, commenced as per s. 86(2).
Sale of steerage passages.
23. The provisions of Part III of the principal Act, relating to passage brokers, shall apply to any person who at any place in the British Islands sells or lets, or agrees to sell or let, or is anywise concerned in the sale or letting of, steerage passages from any place in Europe not within the Mediterranean Sea.