THE MERCHANT SHIPPING ACTS.
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Sections of the Merchant Shipping Acts applicable to Colonial Legislatures and Governors, etc.
The Merchant Shipping Acts contain many references to the Colonies, and to have set them all out would have resulted in an increase in the bulk of this volume beyond the limits of the Editor's authority. The sections may be roughly grouped under four heads—jurisdiction of Colonial Legislatures, of Colonial Governors, of Colonial Courts, and of Colonial maritime officers. The Courts and the shipping officers may be presumed to have copies of the Act ready to their hand; but this is not so in the case of the Legislature and of Executive officers. It has been thought desirable therefore to set out, in addition to those sections already printed in this Part, no more than what may be called the constitutional sections of these important Acts; and for convenience of reference, marginal references are given to the sections of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance by which the powers given to the Legislature have been exercised in this Colony.
Powers of Governor as to Distressed Seamen.
M. S. Act, 1906, (6 Ed. VII c. 48 ss. 41 & 49).
41.—(1) Where either—
Provisions for relief of distressed seamen.
(a) Any seamen, whether subjects of His Majesty or not, are found in any place out of the United Kingdom, and have been shipwrecked from any British ship or any of His Majesty's ships, or by reason of having been discharged or left behind from any such ship in any place out of the United Kingdom, are in distress in that place, or
(b) any seamen, being subjects of His Majesty, who have been engaged by any person acting either as principal or agent to serve in a ship belonging to the Government or to a subject or citizen of a foreign country, are in distress in any place out of the United Kingdom,