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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 374

1968 c.77

374. In all legal proceedings against the owner or skipper of, or any person
belonging to, any boat entered in the fishing boat register, ... for an
offence [under the Sea Fisheries (Scotland) Amendment Act 1885 or under
section 5 or 10 of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968, [section 2 of the Fishery
Limits Act 1976]], or for the recovery of damages for injury done by such
boat, the register shall be conclusive evidence that the persons entered
therein at any date as owners of the boat were at that date owners thereof,
and that the boat is a British sea-fishing boat: Provided that

(a)this enactment shall not prevent any proceedings being instituted against
any person not so entered who is beneficially interested in the boat; and

(b)this enactment shall not affect the rights of the owners among themselves,
or the rights of any owner entered in the register against any person not so
entered who is beneficially interested in the boat; and

(c)save as aforesaid, entry in the fising boat register shall not confer, take
away, or affect any title to or interest in any fishing boat.

Ss.375384 rep. by 1937 c.23 s.2; SLR (NI) 1954; 1970 c.36 s.100 sch.5

1976 c.86

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