Merchant Shipping Act 1894
Application and collection of light dues.
648.—(1) All light dues coming into the hands of any general lighthouse authority under this Act shall be carried to the Mercantile Marine Fund.
(2) Every person appointed to collect light dues by any of the general lighthouse authorities shall collect all light dues payable at the port at which he is so appointed, whether they are collected on account of the authority by whom he was appointed or on account of one of the other general lighthouse authorities.
(3) Any person so appointed to collect light dues shall pay over to the general lighthouse authority by whom he was appointed, or as that authority directs, the whole amount of light dues received by him; and the authority receiving the dues shall keep accounts thereof, and shall cause the dues to be remitted to Her Majesty’s Paymaster-General in such manner as the Board of Trade direct.
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C148
Reference to Mercantile Marine Fund construed as a reference to the General Lighthouse Fund (1.04.1899) by Merchant Shipping (Mercantile Marine Fund) Act 1898 (61 & 62 Geo. 5) c. 44, s. 1(1)(b), (c), commenced as per s. 9(3).
Abolition of Mercantile Marine Fund and constitution of General Lighthouse Fund.
1.—(1) ...
(b) All expenses charged on and payable out of the Mercantile Marine Fund, except the expenses relating to lighthouses, buoys, and beacons mentioned in paragraph (i) of section six hundred and seventy-seven of the same Act, and except also any expenses incurred by a general lighthouse authority under section five hundred and thirty-one of the same Act, shall, so far as they are not paid by any private person, be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament:
(c) The said excepted sums shall be accounted for and paid to, and the said excepted expenses shall be charged on and payable out of, a fund which shall be called the General Lighthouse Fund, and references in Part XI. and in sections five hundred and thirty-one and six hundred and seventy-nine of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, to the Mercantile Marine Fund shall be construed as references to the General Lighthouse Fund.
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