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INTERNATIONAL PROVISIONS OF
Collisions at Sea.
China
Costa Rica
Denmark
Netherlands
Norway
Peru
Ecuador
Egypt
France
Portugal
Roumania
Russia
Germany
Greece
Guatemala
Siam
Spain
Sweden
Italy
Turkey
Japan
Mexico
United States
Venezuela
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Exemption of Foreign Ships from Rules as to Life Saving Appliances.
Rules as to life-saving appliances.
M. S. Act, 1894, ss. 427–431.—
[By the proviso to s. 13 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, the ships of those countries which have been exempted (by the Act of 1906) from these sections of the Act, are exempted from the provisions of s. 13 of the Ordinance].
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427.-(1) The Board of Trade may make rules (in this Act called rules for life-saving appliances) with respect to all or any of the following matters; namely,
(a) the arranging of British ships into classes, having regard to the services in which they are employed, to the nature and duration of the voyage, and to the number of persons carried :
(b) the number and description of the boats, life-boats, life-rafts, life-jackets, and life-buoys to be carried by British ships, according to the class in which they are arranged, and the mode of their construction, also the equipments to be carried by the boats and rafts, and the methods to be provided to get the boats and other life-saving appliances into the water, which methods may include oil for use in stormy weather :
(c) the quantity, quality, and description of buoyant apparatus to be carried on board British ships carrying passengers, either in addition to or in substitution for boats, life-boats, life-rafts, life-jackets, and life-buoys.
(2) All such rules shall be laid before Parliament so soon as may be after they are made, and shall not come into operation until they have lain for 40
232
INTERNATIONAL PROVISIONS OF
Collisions at Sea.
China
Costa Rica
Denmark
Netherlands
Norway
Peru
Ecuador
Egypt
France
Portugal
Roumania
Russia
Germany
Greece Guatemala
Siam Spain Sweden
Italy
Turkey
Japan
Mexico
United States Venezuela
E
Exemption of Foreign Ships from Rules as to Life Saving Appliances.
Rules as to life-saving appliances.
M. S. Acr, 1894, ss. 427–431.—
[By the proviso to s. 13 of the Merchant Shidping Ordinance, 1899, the ships of those countries which have been exempted (by the Act of 1906) from these sections of the Act, are exempted from the provisions of s. 13 of the Ordi-
nance].
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427.-(1) The Board of Trade may make rules (in this Act called rules for life-saving appliances) with respect to all or any of the following matters; namely,-
(a) the arranging of British ships into classes, having regard to the services in which they are em- ployed, to the nature and duration of the voyage, and to the number of persons carried :
(b) the number and description of the boats, life- boats, life-rafts, life-jackets, and life-buoys to be carried by British ships, according to the class in which they are arranged, and the mode of their con- struction, also the equipments to be carried by the boats and rafts, and the methods to be provided to get the boats and other life-saving appliances into the water, which methods may include oil for use in stormy weather : and
(c) the quantity, quality, and description of buoyant apparatus to be carried on board British ships carrying passengers, either in addition to or in substitution for boats, life-boats, life-rafts, life-jackets, and life-buoys.
(2) All such rules shall be laid before Parliament so soon as may be after they are made, and shall not come into operation until they have lain for 40
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