MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894

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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 742



742. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following
expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them; (that is to say),

"VESSEL" includes any ship or boat, or any other description of vessel used in
navigation;

"SHIP" includes every description of vessel used in navigation not propelled
by oars;

"FOREIGN-GOING SHIP" includes every ship employed in trading or going between
some place or places in the United Kingdom, and some place or places situate
beyond the following limits; that is to say, the coasts of the United Kingdom,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, and the continent of Europe between the
River Elbe and Brest inclusive;

"HOME TRADE SHIP" includes every ship employed in trading or going within the
following limits; that is to say, the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, and the continent of Europe between the River Elbe and Brest
inclusive;

"HOME TRADE PASSENGER SHIP" means every home trade ship employed in carrying
passengers;

"MASTER" includes every person (except a pilot) having command or charge of
any ship;

"SEAMAN" includes every person (except [masters and pilots]), employed or
engaged in any capacity on board any ship;

"WAGES" includes emoluments;

"EFFECTS" includes clothes and documents;

"SALVOR" means, in the case of salvage services rendered by the officers or
crew or part of the crew of any ship belonging to Her Majesty, the person in
command of that ship;

"PILOT" means any person not belonging to a ship who has the conduct thereof;

"COURT" in relation to any proceeding includes any magistrate or justice
having jurisdiction in the matter to which the proceeding relates;

"COLONIAL COURT OF ADMIRALTY" has the same meaning as in the Colonial Courts
of Admiralty Act, 1890;

"A COMMISSIONER FOR OATHS" means a commissioner for oaths within the meaning
of the Commissioners for Oaths Act, 1889;

"CHIEF OFFICER OF CUSTOMS" includes the collector, superintendent, principal
coast officer, or other chief officer of customs at each port;

"SUPERINTENDENT" shall, so far as respects a British possession, include any
shipping master or other officer discharging in that possession the duties of
a superintendent;

"CONSULAR OFFICER," when used in relation to a foreign country, means the
officer recognised by Her Majesty as a consular officer of that foreign
country;

"BANKRUPTCY" includes insolvency;

"REPRESENTATION" means probate, administration, confirmation, or other
instrument constituting a person the executor, administrator, or other
representative of a deceased person;

"LEGAL PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE" means the person so constituted executor,
administrator, or other representative, of a deceased person;

"NAME" includes a surname;

"PORT" includes place;

"HARBOUR" includes harbours properly so called, whether natural or artificial,
estuaries, navigable rivers, piers, jetties, and other works in or at which
ships can obtain shelter, or ship and unship goods or passengers;

"TIDAL WATER" means any part of the sea and any part of a river within the ebb
and flow of the tide at ordinary spring tides, and not being a harbour;

"HARBOUR AUTHORITY" includes all persons or bodies of persons, corporate or
unincorporate, being proprietors of, or intrusted with the duty or invested
with the power of constructing, improving, managing, regulating, maintaining
or lighting a harbour;

"CONSERVANCY AUTHORITY" includes all persons or bodies of persons, corporate
or unincorporate, intrusted with the duty or invested with the power of
conserving, maintaining, or improving the navigation of a tidal water;

"LIGHTHOUSE" shall in addition to the ordinary meaning of the word include any
floating and other light exhibited for the guidance of ships, and also any
sirens and any other description of fog signals, and also any addition to a
lighthouse of any improved light, or any siren, or any description of fog
signal;

"BUOYS AND BEACONS" includes all other marks and signs of the sea;

"THE TRINITY HOUSE" shall mean the master, wardens and assistants of the
guild, fraternity, or brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity
and of St. Clement in the parish of Deptford Strond in the county of Kent,
commonly called the corporation of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond;

"THE COMMISSIONERS OF IRISH LIGHTS" means the body incorporated by that name
under the local Act of the session held in the thirtieth and thirty-first
years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter eighty-one, intituled "An
Act to alter the constitution of the Corporation for preserving and improving
the Port of Dublin and for other purposes connected with that body and with
the Port of Dublin Corporation," and any Act amending the same;

"LIFEBOAT SERVICE" means the saving, or attempted saving of vessels, or of
life, or property on board vessels, wrecked or aground or sunk, or in danger
of being wrecked or getting aground or sinking.

Any reference to failure to do any act or thing shall include a reference to
refusal to do that act or thing.

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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 742