Merchant Shipping Act 1894
Mode of survey and declaration of survey.
272.—(1) The owner of every passenger steamer shall cause the same to be surveyed by a shipwright surveyor of ships and an engineer surveyor of ships F130[and, in the case of a sea-going passenger steamer required to be provided with a F130[radiocommunications installation], by a radio surveyor], the shipwright surveyor being, in the case of an iron steamer, a person properly qualified in the opinion of the Board of Trade to survey an iron steamer.
(2) The surveyors, if satisfied on the survey that they can with propriety do so, shall deliver to the owner declarations of survey in a form approved by the Board of Trade.
(3) F132[…]—
(a) F132[…]
(b) F132[…]
(c) F132[…]
(d) F133[…]
(e) F132[…]
(f) F132[…]
(4) F134[…]
(a) F134[…]
(b) F134[…]
(c) F134[…]
(d) F134[…]
(e) F133[…]
(f) F134[…]
Annotations:
Amendments:
F130
Inserted (19.11.1953) by Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1952 (29/1952), ss. 17(1), 47(4), S.I. No. 338 of 1953.
F131
Substituted (3.07.2010) by Merchant Shipping Act 2010 (14/2010), s. 8(2)(b), commenced on enactment.
F132
Repealed (19.11.1953) by Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1952 (29/1952), ss. 8, 27(1) and sch. 1, S.I. No. 338 of 1953.
F133
Repealed (1.01.1934) by Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act 1933 (42/1933), s. 36(2) and sch. 2 part 1, S.I. No. 174 of 1933.
F134
Repealed (19.11.1953) by Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1952 (29/1952), s. 8, s. 27(1) and sch. 1, S.I. No. 338 of 1953.
F135
Repealed by Merchant Shipping Act 1992 (2/1992), s. 4 and sch., not commenced as of date of revision.
Modifications (not altering text):
C58
Prospective affecting provision: section repealed by Merchant Shipping Act 1992 (2/1992), s. 4 and sch., not commenced as of date of revision.
272. — F135[…]
C59
Reference to survey construed by Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1952 (29/1952), s. 10(6), as substituted (3.07.2010) by Merchant Shipping Act 2010 (14/2010), s. 7, commenced on enactment.
Construction rules
[10.— ...
(6) Any survey carried out on a steamer to which this section applies in accordance with rules made under subsection (1)(b) is a survey for the purpose of sections 271(1) and 272 of the Principal Act.
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C60
Application of subs. (2) extended (19.11.1953) by Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1952 (29/1952), s. 27(2), S.I. No. 338 of 1953.
Miscellaneous provisions as to surveys and certificates.
27.— ...
(2) Subsection (2) of section 272 of the Principal Act (which requires a surveyor to deliver declarations of survey to the owner of a ship), section 273 of that Act (which requires the owner to deliver the declaration to the Minister) and section 275 of that Act (which relates to appeals to the court of survey) shall apply to surveys for the purpose of the issue of any certificate in respect of a ship under this Act as they apply to surveys for the purpose of the issue of passenger steamers' certificates.
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Editorial Notes:
E108
Previous affecting provisions: alternate particulars to those in subss. (3)(d), (4)(e) specified (1.01.1934) by Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act 1933 (42/1933), s. 2(1), (2), S.I. No. 174 of 1933; subsections repealed as per F-notes above.
E109
Previous affecting provision: subs. (4)(c) amended (1.01.1934) by Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act 1933 (42/1933), s. 5(4), S.I. No. 174 of 1933; subsection repealed as per F-note above.
E110
Previous affecting provision: application of section extended by Merchant Shipping (Convention) Act 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5) c. 50, s. 11(2), not commenced as per s. 29(5) prior to Independence because of repeated Orders in Council postponing commencement and not commenced subsequently; repealed (3.11.1933) by Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act 1933 (42/1933), s. 67(2) and sch. 2 part III, commenced on enactment.
E111
Previous affecting provision: subs. (3)(b) to be read with additional wording as provided (1.07.1915) by Merchant Shipping (Convention) Act 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5) c. 50, s. 7(4) commenced as per s. 29(5) subject to second paragraph; repealed (3.11.1933) by Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act 1933 (42/1933), s. 67(2) and sch. 2 part III, commenced on enactment.