MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894

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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 724



724.(1) The Board of Trade may, at such ports as they think fit, appoint
either generally or for special purposes, and on special occasion, any person
they think fit to be a surveyor of ships for the purposes of this Act, and a
person so appointed (in this Act referred to as a surveyor of ships) may be
appointed either as a shipwright surveyor or as an engineer surveyor or as
both.

(2) The Board of Trade may also appoint a surveyor-general of ships for the
United Kingdom.

(3) The Board of Trade may remove any surveyors of ships and fix and alter
their remuneration, and may make regulations as to the performance of their
duties, and in particular as to the manner in which surveys of [ships] are to
be made, as to the notice to be given by them when surveys are required, and
as to the amount and payment of any travelling or other expenses incurred by
them in the execution of their duties, and may by such regulations determine
the persons by whom and the conditions under which the payment of those
expenses is to be made.

Subs.(4) rep. by 1969 c.16 (NI) s.31(2) sch.3 Pt.I; 1979 c.39 s.50(4) sch.7
Pt.II

(5) The duties of a surveyor of ships shall be performed under the direction
of the Board of Trade, and in accordance with the regulations made by that
Board.

S.725 rep. by 1970 c.36 s.100 sch.5

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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 724