Merchant Shipping Act 1894

Colonial certificates for passenger steamers.

284

284.—Where the legislature of any British possession provides for the survey of, and grant of certificates for, passenger steamers, and the Board of Trade report to Her Majesty the Queen that they are satisfied that the certificates are to the like effect, and are granted after a like survey, and in such manner as to be equally efficient with the certificates granted for the same purpose in the United Kingdom under this Act, Her Majesty in Council may—

(1) declare that the certificates granted in the said British possession shall be of the same force as if granted under this Act; and

(2) declare that all or any of the provisions of this Part of this Act which relate to passenger steamer’s certificates shall, either without modification or with such modifications as to Her Majesty may seem necessary, apply to the certificates granted in the said British possession; and

(3) impose such conditions and make such regulations with respect to the certificates, and to the use, delivery, and cancellation thereof, as to Her Majesty may seem fit, and impose fines not exceeding fifty pounds for the breach of those conditions and regulations.

Annotations:

Amendments:

F149

Repealed by Merchant Shipping Act 1992 (2/1992), s. 4 and sch., not commenced as of date of revision.

Modifications (not altering text):

C90

Prospective affecting provision: section repealed by Merchant Shipping Act 1992 (2/1992), s. 4 and sch., not commenced as of date of revision.

284.F149[]

C91

Application of section restricted (1.01.1934) by Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act 1933 (42/1933), s. 21(2), S.I. No. 174 of 1933.

Modification of existing provisions for exemption of ships not registered in Saorstát Eireann.

21.— ...

(2) Section two hundred and eighty-four of the Principal Act (which provides for the recognition of passenger steamers' certificates granted in any part of the British Commonwealth of Nations) and any Order in Council thereunder which has the force of law in Saorstát Eireann and section three hundred and sixty-three of that Act (which provides for the exemption of passenger steamers not registered in any part of the British Commonwealth of Nations from survey) shall, on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, cease to apply to Safety Convention passenger steamers plying on international voyages.

Editorial Notes:

E125

A fine of £50 translates into a Class B fine, not exceeding €4,000, as provided (4.01.2011) by Fines Act 2010 (8/2010), ss. 3 and 5, table ref. no. 8, S.I. No. 662 of 2010.