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and the punishment of forgery (subsection 18).
Subsection (2) is remodelled upon the lines of section 92 of the English Act of 1894.
Subsection (8) is new and the object of it is to provide for...
By the term, "section", I mean in the usual way.
(4 Ord. No. 268/1891)
Subsection (4) provides for masters and officers being entered on the registered articles of agreement.
Section 5 is a rearrangement of sections 16 and 22 with some general additions.
It is taken from the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, with some suspecting amendments (see subsections (3) and (4)) and also differs from the old law in making more clear provisions against the promiscuous discharge of seamen who may frequently become a burden to the Colony (subsection 4).
Section ... is the old section ... by Shipping ... and having ... discharge, being chargeable ... to subsection ... so as not to apply in the case of ... seamen, and with subsections (5) and (6) of the old section 17 included together in (1). Subsection (5) of the old section (19) is reproduced in subsection (12) of section 5 of this Ordinance.