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Act of 1891. [8. 2 conta.]
Regulation
MAIL SHIPS.
(2) If a person on board such ship acts in contravention of this section, or refuses or fails on demand to give up to a postal officer, or, if such person is not the master, to the master, any letter so conveyed by him, he shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding £5.
(3) It shall be the duty of the master of the ship to secure the observance of this section by all persons on board the ship, and to inform the proper authorities at the port at which the ship arrives of any breach of this section by any of those persons, and if he wilfully fails to perform that duty he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £5.
(4) Provided that a person shall not be liable under this section to a fine for any offence for which he has been punished by the law of the foreign State.
(5) Nothing in this section shall apply to any letters which if sent from the United Kingdom would be exempted from the exclusive privilege of the Postmaster-General under the Act 7 Will. IV & 1 Vict. c. 33, intituled "an Act for the management of the Post Office".
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3.—(1) Where the owner of any ships, British or foreign, applies to us to giving the High Court in England, and—
of security for ships engaged in postal service.
(a) produces a certificate of a Secretary of State that such owner is subsidised for the execution of any postal service within the meaning of a convention with a foreign State to which this Act applies, by reason of receiving from the foreign State, or from the Government of the United Kingdom or of a British possession, a bona fide subsidy for the postal service mentioned in the certificate; and
(b) produces sufficient evidence of the nature of the said service and the number of and the prescribed particulars respecting the ships engaged therein; and
(c) gives notice of the application to the Board of Trade,
the High Court, after hearing the owner, and the Board of Trade if they wish to be heard, shall fix the nature and amount of the security which the owner ought to place under the control of the Court for the purposes of this Act as respects the ships engaged in that postal service and fix the maximum number and tonnage of the ships to which the security is to apply.
(2) The security shall be the bond of the owner guaranteed either—
(a) by the personal security of a surety, accompanied by an adequate real security given by the surety; or,
(b) by the payment or transfer into Court of cash, or of securities of the Government of the United Kingdom.