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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 419

Board of Trade regulations as to conveyance of fish from trawlers.

419.(1) All owners and masters of ships shall obey the collision regulations,
and shall not carry or exhibit any other lights, or use any other fog signals,
than such as are as required by those regulations.

(2) If an infringement of the collision regulations is caused by the wilful
default of the master or owner of the ship, that master or owner shall, in
respect of each offence, be [liable, on conviction on indictment, to a fine
and imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or, on summary conviction,

(a)to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand pounds and imprisonment for a term
not exceeding six months in the case of an infringement of Rule 10(b)(i) of
the regulations set out in Schedule 1 to the Collision Regulations and
Distress Signals Order 1977; and

(b)to a fine not exceeding #1,000 in any other case].

(3) If any damage to person or property arises from the non-observance by any
ship of any of the collision regulations, the damage shall be deemed to have
been occasioned by the wilful default of the person in charge of the deck of
the ship at the time, unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the court that
the circumstances of the case made a departure from the regulation necessary.

Subs.(4) rep. by 1911 c.57 s.4(1)

(5) The Board of Trade shall furnish a copy of the collision regulations to
any master or owner of a ship who applies for it.

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