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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 369

369.(1) This Part of this Act relates partly

(a)to all fishing boats and to the whole fishing service; and partly

(b)to all fishing boats of twenty-five tons tonnage and upwards; and partly

(c)to fishing boats being trawlers of twenty-five tons tonnage and upwards,
and where so expressly provided, to fishing boats being trawlers of whatever
tonnage.

(2) The Board of Trade may, by order published in the London Gazette,

(a)exempt from the date in the order mentioned, any class of such trawler or
trawlers belonging to any port from the whole or any portion of this Part of
this Act, and

(b)extend all or any of the provisions of this Part of this Act to any
fishing boats referred to in the order,

(3) The Board of Trade may, before making any order under this section,
institute such inquiry, as in their opinion may be required for enabling them
to make the order, by such person as the Board may appoint, ...

(4) The provisions of this Act with respect to fishing boats being trawlers
shall, save as otherwise expressly provided, apply to vessels employed as
tenders or carriers to fishing boats or for the purpose of collecting and
conveying to the land the catch of fishing boats.]

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