Merchant Shipping Act 1894
List of agents and runners to be exhibited by brokers, and sent to emigration officers.
346.—(1) A passage broker shall keep exhibited in some conspicuous place in his office or place of business a correct list, in legible characters, containing the names and addresses in full of every person for the time being authorised to act as his agent or as an emigrant runner for him, and shall on or before the fifth day, or, if that day be a Sunday, on or before the fourth day in every month, transmit a true copy of that list, signed by him, to the emigration officer nearest to his place of business, and shall report to that emigration officer every discharge or fresh engagement of an agent or of an emigrant runner within twenty-four hours of the same taking place.
(2) If a passage broker fails to comply with any requirement of this section he shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds.
Annotations:
Modifications (not altering text):
C105
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.
Editorial Notes:
E175
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.