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MERCHANT SHIPPING REPEAL ACT 1854

MERCHANT SHIPPING REPEAL ACT 1854 - LONG TITLE

An Act to repeal certain Acts and Parts of Acts relating to
Merchant Shipping, and to continue certain Provisions in the said
Acts.{1}
[11th August 1854]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1892

MERCHANT SHIPPING REPEAL ACT 1854 - SECT 1
Short title of Act.

1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Merchant
Shipping Repeal Act, 1854."

MERCHANT SHIPPING REPEAL ACT 1854 - SECT 2
Interpretation of terms in this Act.

2. In the construction and for the purposes of this Act the
interpretation of terms contained in the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854,
shall be considered as incorporated with and forming part of this
Act.

Ss.3, 4 rep. by SLR 1892. S.5 rep. by SLR 1875

MERCHANT SHIPPING REPEAL ACT 1854 - SECT 7
Expenses of life boats, &c. may be charged on Mercantile Marine
Fund.

7. The Board of Trade may, out of the Mercantile Marine Fund,
direct payment to be made of such expenses for establishing and
maintaining on the coasts of the United Kingdom proper life boats,
with the necessary crews and equipments, and for affording assistance
toward the preservation of life and property in cases of shipwreck
and distress at sea, and for the granting rewards for the
preservation of life in such cases, as it thinks fit;....

S.8 rep. by SLR 1950. S.9 rep. by SLR 1875

MERCHANT SHIPPING REPEAL ACT 1854 - SECT 10
Receiver General of droits of Admiralty to conform to directions of
Board of Trade.

10. The Receiver General of droits of Admiralty shall, as to all
things to be done by him in virtue of his office, conform to all
lawful directions given for that purpose by the Board of Trade; and
on a vacancy occurring in his office no successor shall be
appointed, but thereupon all powers and privileges vested in such
Receiver General shall be transferred to the Board of Trade;....

MERCHANT SHIPPING REPEAL ACT 1854 - SECT 11
Powers of Board of Trade as to receivers appointed by such Receiver
General, and serjeants of Admiralty of Cinque Ports, &c.

11. Receivers appointed by the said Receiver General under the Act
of the tenth year of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter
ninety-nine, shall hold their offices only during the pleasure of
the Board of Trade; and the serjeants of the Admiralty of the
Cinque Ports, their deputies or other officers authorized to perform
the duties and to exercise the powers within the jurisdiction of
the Cinque Ports elsewhere performed and exercised by such receivers
as aforesaid, shall perform and exercise the same only during the
pleasure and subject to the directions of the Board of Trade; and
all such receivers, serjeants, deputies, and other officers as
aforesaid shall possess in the several districts within which they
have hitherto exercised their duties the same powers, rights, and
privileges, and perform the same duties, as are by the Merchant
Shipping Act, 1854, vested in and committed to the receivers therein
mentioned, save only that they shall not be entitled to take the
command in cases of ships or boats stranded or in distress, unless
authorized so to do by the Board of Trade.

MERCHANT SHIPPING REPEAL ACT 1854 - SECT 12
Payment of such receivers, &c.

12. There shall be payable to such receivers, serjeants, deputies,
and other officers as aforesaid such fees and other remuneration as
are by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, made payable to receivers
appointed thereunder, and payment thereof shall be made by the same
persons and in the same manner, and shall be capable of being
enforced by the same means, as payment of the fees or other
remuneration payable to the receivers appointed under the Merchant
Shipping Act, 1854, are payable or capable of being enforced, or as
near thereto as circumstances permit; and, save as aforesaid, and
saving also any expenses actually and properly incurred, no such
receiver, serjeant, deputy, or other officer as aforesaid shall be
entitled to demand or receive from any person any fees or other
sums in respect of any services performed by him as receiver;....

MERCHANT SHIPPING REPEAL ACT 1854 - SECT 13
Application of fees.

13. All fees or other remuneration received by any such receiver,
serjeant, deputy, or other officer as aforesaid may be applied by
him to his own use.

S.14 rep. by SLR 1875. S.15 rep. by SLR 1963. S.16 rep. by 1894
c.60 s.745(1) sch.22