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RATS AND MICE (DESTRUCTION) ACT 1919 - SECT 6

Application to vessels.

6.(1) This Act shall apply to a vessel as if the vessel were land, and the
master of the vessel shall be deemed to be the occupier thereof.

(2) A [district council] ... may, by notice served on the master of a vessel
in its district, require him to take such necessary and reasonably practicable
steps as are prescribed by the notice for preventing the escape of rats and
mice from the ship, and, if a master fails to comply with the requirements of
any such notice served on him, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a
fine not exceeding twenty pounds.


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