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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 256

Accommodation for seamen.

256.(1) All superintendents and all officers of customs shall take charge of
all documents which are delivered or transmitted to or retained by them in
pursuance of this Act, and shall keep them for such time (if any) as may be
necessary for the purpose of settling any business arising at the place where
the documents come into their hands, or for any other proper purpose, and
shall, if required, produce them for any of those purposes, and shall then
transmit them to the Registrar-General of Shipping and Seamen, and he shall
record and preserve them, and they shall be admissible in evidence in manner
provided by this Act, and they shall, on payment of a moderate fee fixed by
the Board of Trade, or without payment if the Board so direct, be open to the
inspection of any person.]

Subs.(2) rep. by 1958 c.51 s.13 sch.4

Ss.257266 rep. by 1920 c.39 s.1(3) sch.; 1970 c.36 s.100 sch.5

Transmission of documents to registrar by superintendents and other officers.



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