Merchant Shipping Act 1894

Scale for determining length of voyages.

269

269.—For the purpose of this Part of this Act the length of the voyage of an emigrant ship from the British Islands to any port elsewhere shall be determined by such of the scales fixed by the Board of Trade as is applicable thereto, and the Board of Trade may fix the scales by notice published in the London Gazette, and may fix such different lengths of voyage as they think reasonable for different descriptions of ships.

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C52

Reference to the London Gazette construed (23.12.1927) by Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, Adaptation (No. 2) Order 1927 (S.R. & O. No. 106 of 1927), art. 3.

3. The references to the London Gazette contained in the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (other than the reference thereto contained in subsection (2) of section 738 and the reference thereto contained in section 740 of the said Act) shall be construed as references to the Iris Oifigiúil and the said Act shall have effect accordingly.