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ACT

OF THE

PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

OF

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

PASSED IN THE SESSION HELD IN THE

29TH-40TH YEARS OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY,

QUEEN VICTORIA,

BEING THE THIRD SESSION OF THE TWENTY-FIRST PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED
KINGDOM

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PRINTED BY BROWN CHAMBERLIN,

LAW PRINTER (FOR CANADA) TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY,

ANNO DOMINI, 1877.

L11209

FEB 6 1936

39-40 VICTORIA.

BE

CHAP. 80.

An Act to amend the Merchant Shipping Acts.

[15th August, 1876.]

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 the present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Preliminary.

1. This Act may be cited as the Merchant Shipping Act, Short title. 1876.

2. This Act shall be construed as one with the Merchant Construction Shipping Act, 1854, and the Acts amending the same; and of Act. the said Acts and this Act may be cited collectively as the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1854 to 1876.

3. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of CommenceOctober, 1876 (which day is in this Act referred to as the ment of Act. commencement of this Act); nevertheless any Orders in Council and general rules under this Act may be made at any time after the passing of this Act, but shall not come into operation before the commencement of this Act.

Unseaworthy Ships.

seaworthy

demeanour

4. Every person who sends or attempts to send, or is party Sending unto sending or attempting to send a British ship to sea in such ship to sea, a unseaworthy state that the life of any person is likely to be misthereby endangered, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, unless he proves that he used all reasonable means to insure her being sent to sea in a seaworthy state, or that her going to sea in such unseaworthy state was, under the circumstances, reasonable and justifiable,-and for the purpose of giving such proof he may give evidence in the same manner as any other witness.

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