Merchant Shipping Act 1894
Contract tickets for passengers.
320.—(1) If any person, except the Board of Trade and persons acting for them and under their direct authority, receives money from any person for or in respect of a passage as a steerage passenger in any ship, or of a passage as a cabin passenger in any emigrant ship, proceeding from the British Islands to any port out of Europe and not within the Mediterranean Sea, he shall give to the person paying the same a contract ticket signed by or on behalf of the owner, charterer, or master of the ship, and printed in plain and legible characters.
(2) The contract ticket shall be in a form approved by the Board of Trade and published in the London Gazette, and any directions contained in that form of contract ticket not being inconsistent with this Act shall be obeyed as if set forth in this section.
(3) If any person fails to comply with any requirement of this section, he shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.
(4) Contract tickets under this section shall not be liable to stamp duty.
Annotations:
Modifications (not altering text):
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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.
Editorial Notes:
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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.