1536 ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1879 .
Merchant Shipping.
recovery thereof ; to leaving seamen abroad ; to the provisions, health
and accommodation of seamen ; to the power of seamen to make com
plaints ; to the protection of seamen from imposition ; todiscipline ;
and to crimes committed abroad, shall apply mutatis mutandis , and so
far as the same can be extended , to all ships registered in this Colony
when such ships are within the jurisdiction of this Government, and to
the owners, masters and crews of such ships .
[M. S. A. 1854 2. Every offence declared by the " Merchant Shipping Acts, 1854
Sc. 518.]
to 1876 , " to be a misdemeanor where jurisdiction is given to the Court
in this Colony shall be tried by the Supreme Court in the same manner
as other misdemeanors are tried , and every offence thereby made punish
able by imprisonment for any period not exceeding six months with or
without hard labour or by any penalty not exceeding £ 100 , except as
hereinbefore provided , shall be prosecuted summarily before any Magis
trate or any two Justices of the Peace in like manner as other offences
of like character committed in the Colony may be punished summarily,
and any person convicted summarily shall have the like right of appeal
as if the offence with which he is charged had been tried under any local
Ordinance.
Service of 3. Where any order , notice, statement, or document requires , for the
order on
master, &c. purpose of any provision of this Ordinance, to be served on the master
[M. S. A. 1876
see. 35. ) of a ship, the same shall be served where there is no master and the ship
is in the Colony, on the owner or one of the owners of the ship , or if
there is no owner, on the agent of the ship in the Colony, or where no
such agent is known or can be found, by affixing a copy thereof to the
mast of the ship .
4. Any such order, notice , stateinent , or document may be served
by delivering a copy thereof personally to the person to be served or by
leaving the same at his last place of abode, or in the case of a master by
leaving it for him on board the ship with the person being or appearing
to be in command of such ship .
5. Any person who obstructs the service of any order, notice , state
ment, or document on the master of a ship shall incur a penalty not ex
ceeding fifty dollars and if the owner, agent, or master of the ship is a
party or privy to such obstruction he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.