SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 4 Pre-Consolidation Amendments
Legal proceedings and offences: assimilation and modernisation
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In any offence-creating provision of the Merchant Shipping Acts—
a
any reference to doing a thing “wilfully” shall be construed as a reference to doing it “intentionally”;
b
any reference to “suffering” or “allowing” a thing to be done shall be construed as a reference to “permitting” it to be done; and
c
any reference to the absence of a reasonable “cause” shall be construed as a reference to the absence of a reasonable “excuse”.