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exhibit any other lights, or use any other fog signals, than such as are required by those regulations.
(2) If an infringement of the Collision Regulations is caused by the wilful default of the master or owner of the ship, that master or owner shall, in respect of each offence, be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(3) If any damage to person or property arises from the non-observance by any ship of any of the Collision Regulations the damage shall be deemed to have been occasioned by the wilful default of the person in charge of the deck of the ship at the time, unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the Court that the circumstances of the case made a departure from the Regulation necessary.
[sub-section (4) rep. Maritime Conventions Act, 1911, (1 & 2 Geo. V c. 57 s. 4).]
(5) The Board of Trade shall furnish a copy of the Collision Regulations to any master or owner of a ship who applies for it.
424. Whenever it is made to appear to Her Majesty in Council that the Government of any foreign country is willing that the Collision Regulations, or the provisions of this Part of this Act relating thereto or otherwise relating to collisions, or any of those Regulations or provisions should apply to the ships of that country when beyond the limits of British jurisdiction, Her Majesty may, by Order in Council, direct that those regulations and provisions shall, subject to any limitation of time, conditions and qualifications contained in the Order, apply to the ships of the said foreign country, whether within British jurisdiction or not, and that such ships shall for the purpose of such regulations and provisions be treated as if they were British ships.
434. § (1) Her Majesty in Council may make rules as to what signals shall be signals of distress, and the signals fixed by those rules shall be deemed to be signals of distress.
(2) If a master of a vessel uses or displays, or causes or permits any person under his authority to use or display, any of those signals of distress, except in the case of a vessel being in distress,
§ The Collision Regulations contain rules as to Signals of Distress. The application of this part of the Regulations to foreign ships is made under the general provisions of s. 734, [see post sec. H], and not under s. 424.
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230
Collisions at Sea.
Application of collision regulations to foreign ships.
Regulations as to signals of distress.
INTERNATIONAL PROVISIONS OF
exhibit any other lights, or use any other fog signals, than such as are required by those regulations.
(2) If an infringement of the Collision Regulations is caused by the wilful default of the master or owner of the ship, that master or owner shall, in res- pect of each offence, be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(3) If any damage to person or property arises from the non-observance by any ship of any of the Collision Regulations the damage shall be deemed to have been occasioned by the wilful default of the person in charge of the deck of the ship at the time, unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the Court that the circumstances of the case made a departure from the Regulation necessary.
[sub-section (4) rep. Maritime Conventions Act, 1911, (1 & 2 GEO. V c. 57 s. 4).]
(5) The Board of Trade shall furnish a copy of the Collision Regulations to any master or owner of a ship who applies for it.
424. Whenever it is made to appear to Her Ma- jesty in Council that the Government of any foreign country is willing that the Collision Regulations, or the provisions of this Part of this Act relating there- to or otherwise relating to collisions, or any of those Regulations or provisions should apply to the ships of that country when beyond the limits of British juris- diction, Her Majesty may, by Order in Council, direct that those regulations and provisious shall, subject to any limitation of time, conditions and qualifications contained in the Order, apply to the ships of the said foreign country, whether within British jurisdiction or not, and that such ships shall for the purpose of such regulations and provisions be treated as if they were British ships.
434. § (1) Her Majesty in Council may make rules as to what signals shall be signals of distress, and the signals fixed by those rules shall be deemed to be signals of distress.
(2) If a master of a vessel uses or displays, or causes or permits any person under his authority to use or display, any of those signals of distress, except in the case of a vessel being in distress,
§ The Collision Regulations contain rules as to Signals of Distress. The application of this part of the Regulations to foreign ships is made under the general provisions of s. 734, [see post sec. H], and not under s. 424.
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