Merchant Shipping Act 1894
Establishments of general lighthouse authorities.
659.—(1) Her Majesty may by Order in Council fix the establishments to be maintained by each of the general lighthouse authorities on account of the services of lighthouses, buoys, and beacons, or the annual or other sums to be paid out of the Mercantile Marine Fund in respect of those establishments.
(2) If it appears that any part of the establishments of the general lighthouse authorities is maintained for other purposes as well as for the purposes of their duties as general lighthouse authorities, Her Majesty may by Order in Council fix the portion of the expense of those establishments to be paid out of the Mercantile Marine Fund.
(3) An increase of any establishment or part of an establishment fixed under this section shall not be made without the consent of the Board of Trade.
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C151
Application of section extended (26.03.1920) by Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Act 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5) c. 2, s. 1, commenced on enactment.
Amendment of s. 659 of 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60.
1. The power of His Majesty, under section six hundred and fifty-nine of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, as amended by subsequent enactments, by Order in Council to fix the annual or other sums to be paid out of the General Lighthouse Fund in respect of the establishment of the general lighthouse authorities, shall extend to fixing the annual or other sums to be paid out of that fund to members of the general lighthouse authority for England and Wales, and the sums so fixed shall have effect notwithstanding anything in any Act limiting the amount thereof.
C152
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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