Merchant Shipping Act 1894
Alterations, &c. in agreements to be attested.
407.—Every erasure interlineation or alteration in a fishing boat’s agreement (except additions so made as herein-before directed for shipping substitutes or persons engaged subsequently to the first departure of the fishing boat) shall be wholly inoperative unless proved to have been made with the consent of all the persons interested in that erasure interlineation or alteration.