Examples of Merchant Shipping Acts in a sentence
Appeal and compensation – detention under Port State Control A guidance note on appeal procedure is issued at the time of detention.A master or owner of a ship may appeal within 21 days against a notice of detention which has been served on the ground that the ship is dangerously unsafe or fails to comply with UK Merchant Shipping Acts.
This Act makes the British Merchant Shipping Acts, 1984 to 1970 applicable as a law of Seychelles to the extent set out in the Schedule.
An Act to consolidate the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1994 and other enactments relating to merchant shipping.
This would be acceptable if admiralty jurisdiction was conferred on courts of summary jurisdiction in the same way as at present under the Navigation and Merchant Shipping Acts.
The gross tonnage of a ship is as ascertained under the Merchant Shipping Acts.
Section 127(2)–(4) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980] (which among other things contains a provision for England and Wales which corresponds to the first provision in subsection (1) of this section) shall not apply to an offence under the Merchant Shipping Acts; but nothing in the preceding provisions of this section, except subsection (1), applies to an offence committed before this section comes into force.
No person, except with the permission of the Harbour Master, shall exhibit or place within the Harbour Premises any Goods for sale other than such Goods as may be sold or exhibited for sale under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 2014, or by order of the Revenue Commissioners.
The legal provisions relating to the appointment and functions of Receiver of Wreck (the Receiver) are contained in the Merchant Shipping (Salvage And Wreck Act) 1993 (The Principal Act), which amends and extends the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1992 and may be cited together with them as the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1993.The Principal Act gives effect in Irish Law to the Salvage Convention done at London in 1989.
In cases in which Receivers appointed under the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1993 have to sell Wreck, they should not employ an auctioneer for the purpose.
The possession of the wreck by an agent duly appointed by the owner should be treated as equivalent to possession of the wreck by the owner.In no case, should persons claiming to be agents of owners, masters or underwriter’s be permitted to interfere with or to take possession of property in the Receiver’s custody under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1993, unless and until satisfactory evidence of ownership and of the authority of the person claiming to interfere, has been produced.