ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES. Preliminary. Clauses. 1. Short title. 2. Definition of terms. 3. Commencement of Act. Coasting Trade. 4. Regulation of coasting trade by colonial legislature. Merchant Shipping. 6. Registrars of British ships in British possessions. 5 10 15 A BILL INTITULED An Act for amending the Law relating to the Coasting Trade A.D. 1869. and Merchant Shipping in British possessions. BE E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: Preliminary. 1. This Act may be cited as "The Merchant Shipping (Colonial) Short title. Act, 1869." Definition of terms: 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— ture." The term 66 3. This Act shall be proclaimed in every British possession by Commence20 the governor thereof as soon as may be after he receives notice of ment of Act. this Act, and shall come into operation in that British possession 25 on the day of such proclamation, which day is herein-after referred to as the commencement of this Act. Coasting Trade. of co 4. After the commencement of this Act the legislature of a Regulation British possession, by any Act or Ordinance, from time to time, may regulate the coasting trade of that British possession, subject in every case to the following conditions: coasting trade by colonial legislature. A.D. 1869. Repeal of 16 & 17 Vict. c. 107. ss. 328. and 163. Registrars of possessions. Application of 17 & 18 Vict. c. 104. s. 109. to Canada. Colonial cer tificates to master, (1.) The Act or Ordinance shall contain a suspending clause, providing that such Act or Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's pleasure thereon has been publicly signified in the British possession in which it has been passed. (2.) The Act or Ordinance shall treat all British ships (including the ships of any British possession) in exactly the same manner as ships of the British possession in which it is made. 5 (3.) Where by treaty made before the passing of this Act Her 10 Majesty has agreed to grant to any ships of any foreign state any rights or privileges in respect of the coasting trade of any British possession, such rights and privileges shall be enjoyed by such ships for so long as Her Majesty has already agreed or may hereafter agree to grant the 15 same, anything in the Act or Ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding. 5. The following sections of The Customs Consolidation Act, 1853, are hereby repealed; namely, Section three hundred and twenty-eight as from the commence- 20 Section one hundred and sixty-three as from the date in the case Merchant Shipping. 6. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Order in Council, from time to time to declare, with respect to the British possession 30 mentioned in the order, the description of persons who are to be registrars of British ships in that British possession, and to revoke any order so made. After the date specified in the order, or if no date is specified after the date of the proclamation of the order in the British 35 possession, the order shall have effect as if it were contained in section thirty of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854. 7. In the construction of The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, and of the Acts amending the same, Canada shall be deemed to be one British possession. 8. Where the legislature of any British possession provides for the examination of, and grant of certificates of competency to 40 17 & 18 Vict. c. 104. s. 131. et seq. persons intending to act as masters, mates, or engineers on board A.D. 1869. British ships, and the Board of Trade reports to Her Majesty that mates, and they are satisfied that the examinations are so conducted as to be engineers. equally efficient as the examinations for the same purpose in the 5 United Kingdom under the Acts relating to Merchant Shipping, and that the certificates are granted on such principles as to show the like qualifications and competency as those granted under the said Acts, and are liable to be forfeited for the like reasons and in the like manner, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Order 10 in Council, to declare that such certificates shall be, and such certificates shall accordingly be, of the same force and effect, and subject to be forfeited for the same reasons, and in the same manner, as if they had been granted under the said Acts. The order shall extend to certificates granted after the date 15 specified in that behalf in the order (whether before or after the date of the order), or if no date is specified, after the date of the order. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty in Council, on a report from the Board of Trade, to revoke any order made under this section. 25 & 26 Vict. c. 63. s. 5. et seq. |