THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH MARCH, 1890.
by him on account of the ship, as a master of a ship now has for the recovery of his wages; and if in any proceeding in any Court of Admiralty or Vice Admiralty, or in any county court having Admiralty jurisdiction, touching the claim of a master or any person lawfully acting as master to wages or such disbursements or liabilities as afore- said, any right of set-off or counterclaim is set up, it shall be lawful for the court to enter into and adjudicate upon all questions, and to settle all accounts then arising or outstanding and unsettled between the parties to the proceeding, and to direct payment of any balance which is found to be due.
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advance notes.
2. (1.) Any agreement with a seaman made under section one hundred and forty- Restrictions on nine of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, may contain a stipulation for payment to or 17 & 18 Vict. c. 104. on behalf of the seaman, conditionally on his going to sea in pursuance of the agreement, s. 149. of a sum not exceeding the amount of one month's wages payable to the seaman under the agreement.
(2.) Save as authorised by this section, any agreement by or on behalf of the employer of a seaman for the payment of money to or on behalf of the seaman condi- tionally on his going to sea from any port in the United Kingdom shall be void, and no money paid in satisfaction or in respect of any such agreement shall be deducted from the seaman's wages, and no person shall have any right of action, suit, or set-off against the seaman or his assignee in respect of any money so paid or purporting to have been so paid.
(3.) Nothing in this section shall affect any allotment made under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, or the Acts amending the same.
(4.) Section two of the Merchant Seamen (Payment of Wages and Rating) Act, 43 & 44 Vict. c. 16. 1880, is hereby repealed.
serters.
3. Every superintendent of a mercantile marine office shall keep at his office a list Register of de- of the seamen who, to the best of his knowledge and belief, have deserted or failed to join their ships after signing an agreement to proceed to sea in them, and shall on request show this list to any master of a ship.
A superintendent of a mercantile marine office shall not be liable in respect of any entry made in good faith in the list so kept.
4. Where a seaman has agreed with the master of a British ship for payment of his wages in British sterling or any other money, any payment of, or on account of, his wages if made in any other currency than that stated in the agreement, shall, not- withstanding anything in the agreement, be made at the rate of exchange for the money stated in the agreement for the time being current at the place where the payment is made. 5. The provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, and the Acts amending the same, with respect to steamships, shall apply to ships propelled by electricity or other mechanical power, with such modifications as the Board of Trade may from time to time prescribe for purposes of adaptation.
6. (1.) This Act may be cited as the Merchant Shipping Act, 1889. (2.) This Act shall be construed as one with the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, and the Acts amending the same, and this Act and those Acts may be cited collectively as the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1854 to 1889.
Rule as to payment in foreign money.
of British seamen
Provisions as to
to ships propelled. steamships to apply by electricity, &c.
Short title and construction.
52 & 53 VICT. CHAPTER 52.
Official Secrets Act, 1889.
An Act to prevent the Disclosure of Official Documents and Information.
[26th August 1889.]
BE it enacted by the Queen's, most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Par-
liament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
formation.
1.--(1.) (a.) Where a person for the purpose of wrongfully obtaining information- Disclosure of in-
(i.) enters or is in any part of a place belonging to Her Majesty the Queen, being a fortress, arsenal, factory, dockyard, camp, ship, office, or other like place, in which part he is not entitled to be; or
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