THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH DECEMBER, 1876.
On and after the same day the salaries of all surveyors appointed under the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1854 to 1876, and so much of the expenses connected with the survey and measurement of ships under those Acts, and of the salaries and expenses of persons employed under the Passengers Act, 1855, as has heretofore been paid out of the Mercantile Marine Fund, shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament, and the Treasury shall have the like control over such salaries and expenses as has heretofore bgen vested in the Board of Trade.
There may be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament, to any wreck commissioner, judge of a court of survey, assessor, registrar of a court of survey, detaining officer, scientific referee, and other officer or person appointed under this Act, such salary or remuneration (if any) as the Treasury from time to time direct.
There may be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament all costs and compensation payable by the Board of Trade in pursuance of this Act.
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40. For the purpose of punishment, jurisdiction, and legal proceedings an offence under this Act shall Legal proceedings in be deemed to be an offence under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854.
41. In the application of this Act to Scotland,-
Board of Trade shall not apply.
case of offences.
Application of Act to
The provision with respect to a prosecution not being instituted except by or with the consent of the Scotland.
Judge of a county court" shall be deemed to include a sheriff and sheriff substitute, and
Registrar of a county court" shall be deemed to include sheriff clerk, and
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"A master of the Supreme Court of Judicature" shall mean the Queen's and Lord Treasurer's
Remembrancer.
42. In the application of this Act to Ireland,
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Application of Act to
Judge of a county court" shall be deemed to include "chairman of a county" and "the recorder Ireland.
of any borough";
"Registrar of a county court" shall be deemed to include the clerk of the peace or registrar or other person discharging the duties of registrar of the court, of the chairman of a county, or the recorder of a borough";
"Stipendiary magistrate" shall be deemed to include any of the justices of the peace in Dublin
metropolis and any resident magistrate; and
"A master of the Supreme Court of Judicature" shall mean one of the masters of the Superior Courts of
Common Law in Ireland.
43. In the application of this Act to the Isle of Man,-
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Judge of a county court" shall mean the water bailiff;
Stipendiary magistrate" shall mean a high bailiff;
Application of Act to Isle of Man.
"Registrar of a county" shall mean a-clerk to a deemster or a clerk to justices of the peace;
"A master of the Supreme Court of Judicature" shall mean the clerk of the rolls.
44. Nothing in this Act shall apply to any vessel employed exclusively in trading or going from place Saving for colonial to place in any river or inland water of which the whole or part is in any British possession, and the inland waters. provisions of this Act relating to deck carge, shall not apply to deck cargo carried by a ship while engaged
in the coasting trade of any British possession.
Repeal.
45. On and from the commencement of this Act the Acts specified in the first part of the schedule hereto, Repeal of Acts. and on and from the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven the Acts specified in the second part of the schedule hereto, shall be repealed to the extent in the third column of that schedule mentioned: Provided that any officer appointed in pursuance of any such enactment shall be deemed to have been appointed under this Act, and any Order in Council made in pursuance of any such enactment shall be deemed to have been made under this Act, and this repeal shall not affect
Anything done or suffered under any enactment hereby repealed; nor
(2.) Any right, power, duty, obligation, or liability acquired, imposed, agcrued, or incurred under any
enactment hereby repealed; nor
(3.) Any penalty or punishment incurred in respect of any offence against any enactment hereby
repealed; nor
(4.) Any legal proceeding in respect of any such right, power, duty, obligation, liability, penalty, or
punishment, and any such legal proceeding may be carried on as if this Act had not passed.
SCHEDULE. PART 1.
ENACTMENTS REPEALED FROM COMMENCEMENT OF ACT.
Title.
Session and Chapter.
17 & 18 Vict. e. 104.
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854.
36 & 37 Vict. c. 85
38 & 39 Vict. c. 88.
34 & 35 Vict. c. 110.....
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1871 The Merchant Shipping Act, 1873 The Merchant Shipping Act, 1875
PART II.
Extent of repeal.
Sub-section (4) of section three hundred and one; so much of section three hundred and eighteen as requires the owner of a Ship to transmit the declar- ations therein mentioned; section four hundred and thirty-four; and section four hundred and thirty-seven from "and in case he so requires " inclusive to the end of section; and section four hundred and forty-nine.
Section eleven.
Sections eleven, twelve, thirteen, and fourteen.
The whole Act.
Session and Chapter.
17 & 18 Vict. c. 104......
35 & 36 Vict. e. 73....
ENACTMENTS REPEALED FROM 1ST JANUARY, 1877.
Title.
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854 The Merchant Shipping Act, 1872
Extent of repeal.
Sub-section (2) of section four hundred and eighteen.
Section fourteen.