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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 210

Certain ships to carry medical practitioners.

210.(1) Every place in any British ship occupied by seamen or apprentices, and
appropriated to their use, shall have for each of those seamen or apprentices
a space of not less than [one hundred and twenty] cubic feet and of not less
than [fifteen] superficial feet measured on the deck or floor of that place,
and shall be subject to the regulations in the Sixth Schedule to this Act, and
those regulations shall have effect as part of this section, and if any of the
foregoing requirements of this section is not complied with in the case of any
ship, the owner of the ship shall for each offence be liable to a fine not
exceeding twenty pounds.

(2) Every place so occupied and appropriated shall be kept free from goods and
stores of any kind not being the personal property of the crew in use during
the voyage, and if any such place is not so kept free, the master shall
forfeit and pay to each seaman or apprentice lodged in that place the sum of
[5p] for each day during which, after complaint has been made to him by any
two or more of the seamen so lodged, it is not so kept free.

(3) Such fees as the Board of Trade fix shall be paid in respect of an
inspection for the purposes of this section ....]

Ss.211250 rep. by 1906 c.48 s.85 sch.2; 1953 c.14 (NI) s.1(2); SLR (NI) 1954;
1969 c.16 (NI) s.31(2) sch.3 Pt.I; 1970 c.36 s.100 sch.5

Ss.251255 rep. by 1947 c.10 s.2(2); 1970 c.36 s.100 schs.4, 5[


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