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Life-salvage provisions.
INTERNATIONAL PROVISIONS OF
ORDER IN COUNCIL [PRUSSIA] 7TH APRIL, 1864.
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AND WHEREAS it has been made to appear to Her Majesty that His Majesty the King of Prussia is willing that salvage shall be awarded by British Courts for services rendered in saving life from Prussian ships when beyond the limits of British jurisdiction;
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Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the power vested in Her by the said Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862, and by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is pleased to order and direct that the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862, and of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, with respect to salvage for services rendered in saving life from British ships, shall, in all British Courts, be held to apply for services rendered in saving life from Prussian ships, whether such services are rendered within British jurisdiction or not.
COUNTRY TO WHICH THE SECTION HAS BEEN APPLIED.
Prussia,
7th April, 1864
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General Provision for extending other provisions of the Act to Foreign Countries.
M. S. ACT, 1894, s. 734.—
Application by Order in Council of provisions of Merchant Shipping Acts to foreign ships.
734. Where it has been made to appear to Her Majesty that the Government of any foreign country is desirous that any of the provisions of this Act, or of any Act hereafter to be passed amending the same, which do not apply to the ships of that country, should so apply and there are no special provisions in this Act for that application, Her Majesty in Council may order that such of those provisions as are in the Order specified shall (subject to the limitations, if any, contained therein) apply to the ships of that country, and to the owners, masters, seamen, and apprentices of those ships, when not locally within the jurisdiction of the Government of that country in the same manner in all respects as if those ships were British ships.
The only case in which action has been taken under this section is in the case of the Rules as to Signals of Distress, contained in the Collision Regulations [see ante, p. 230].
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