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MERCHANT SHIPPING (MERCANTILE MARINE FUND) ACT 1898

MERCHANT SHIPPING (MERCANTILE MARINE FUND) ACT 1898 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the Law with regard to the provision for the
payment of certain Expenses under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894,
and with regard to the levying of Light Dues.
[12th August 1898]
Abolition of Mercantile Marine Fund and constitution of General
Lighthouse Fund.

MERCHANT SHIPPING (MERCANTILE MARINE FUND) ACT 1898 - SECT 1

1.(1) ...

(a)All sums accounted for and paid to the Mercantile Marine Fund,
except the light dues or other sums mentioned in paragraph (i) of
section six hundred and seventy-six of the Merchant Shipping Act,
1894, shall be paid into the Exchequer:

(b)All expenses charged on and payable out of the Mercantile Marine
Fund, except the expenses relating to lighthouses, buoys, and beacons
mentioned in paragraph (i) of section six hundred and seventy-seven
of the same Act, and except also any expenses incurred by a
general lighthouse authority under section five hundred and thirty-one
of the same Act, shall, so far as they are not paid by any
private person, be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament:

(c)The said excepted sums shall be accounted for and paid to, and
the said excepted expenses shall be charged on and payable out of,
a fund which shall be called the General Lighthouse Fund, and
references in Part XI and in sections five hundred and thirty-one
and six hundred and seventy-nine of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894,
to the Mercantile Marine Fund shall be construed as references to
the General Lighthouse Fund.

(2) The General Lighthouse Fund shall be applied to the payment of
the expenses by this Act charged thereon, and to no other purpose
whatever.

(3) ... The liabilities of the Mercantile Marine Fund shall be
discharged out of the General Lighthouse Fund.[

MERCHANT SHIPPING (MERCANTILE MARINE FUND) ACT 1898 - SECT 1A
Pension rights of certain employees.

1A.(1) There shall be payable to or in respect of persons whose
salaries are paid out of the General Lighthouse Fund such pensions,
allowances or gratuities as may be determined in accordance with, in
the case of such of those persons as are employed by the Secretary
of State, arrangements made by him and, in the case of other such
persons, arrangements made by a general lighthouse authority and
approved by the Secretary of State, and those benefits shall be
charged on and payable out of that Fund.

Subs.(2) rep. by 1972 c.41 s.134 sch.28 Pt.IV]

MERCHANT SHIPPING (MERCANTILE MARINE FUND) ACT 1898 - SECT 2
Transfer of charges to General Lighthouse Fund.

2.(5) All expenses incurred ... by the Board of Trade or any of
the general lighthouse authorities in making and maintaining
communication between lighthouses and the shore shall be paid out of
the General Lighthouse Fund. Provided that such communication shall
be available for private messages at reasonable charges, so far as
may be compatible with the efficiency and safety of the lighthouse
service, and all sums received in respect thereof shall be paid to
the General Lighthouse Fund.

MERCHANT SHIPPING (MERCANTILE MARINE FUND) ACT 1898 - SECT 3
Fees for registration, transfer, &c. of ships.

3. Such fees shall be paid in respect of the registration, transfer
(including transmission), and mortgage of British ships as the Board
of Trade with the consent of the Treasury, determine, ... and all
such fees shall be paid into the Exchequer. Provided that fees
shall not be payable under this section in respect of vessels [not
exceeding ten tons gross register employed solely in fishing].

S.4 rep. by 1906 c.48 s.85 sch.2

MERCHANT SHIPPING (MERCANTILE MARINE FUND) ACT 1898 - SECT 5
Scale of light dues.

5.(1) ... The general lighthouse authorities shall levy light dues
with respect to the voyages made by ships or by way of periodical
payment, and not with respect to the lights which a ship passes or
from which it derives benefit, and the dues so levied shall take
the place of the dues now levied by those authorities.

[(2) The Secretary of State may by statutory instrument make
regulations with respect to the amounts and the levying of such
dues (including the cases in which the dues are not to be levied)
and the regulations may make different provision for different
circumstances; and any statutory instrument made by virtue of this
subsection shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a
resolution of either House of Parliament.]

Subs.(3) rep. by 1979 c.39 s.50(4) sch.7 Pt.II

S.6 rep. by SLR 1908

MERCHANT SHIPPING (MERCANTILE MARINE FUND) ACT 1898 - SECT 7
Definitions.

7. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires

...

Other expressions have the same meaning as in the Merchant Shipping
Act, 1894.

S.8 rep. by SLR 1908

MERCHANT SHIPPING (MERCANTILE MARINE FUND) ACT 1898 - SECT 9
Short title and construction.

9.(1) This Act may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Mercantile
Marine Fund) Act, 1898.

(2) This Act shall be construed as one with the Merchant Shipping
Act, 1894, and that Act and the Merchant Shipping Act, 1897, the
Merchant Shipping (Exemption from Pilotage) Act, 1897, and this Act
may be cited together as the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1898.

Subs.(3) rep. by SLR 1908

First Schedule rep. by 1949 c.43 s.37(5) sch.3. Second Schedule rep.
by 1979 c.39 s.50(4) sch.7 Pt.II. Fourth Schedule rep. by SLR 1908