Merchant Shipping Act 1906
Part I Safety
1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2 Detention of foreign ships when unsafe owing to defective equipment, &c.
3, 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6 Saving for ship coming in under stress of weather, &c.
7, 8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
11. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Part II Passenger and Emigrant Ships
13 Inclusion of foreign steamships as passenger steamers.
14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
15 Passengers landed or embarked by means of tenders.
16 Restriction as to the decks on which passengers may be carried.
17—20. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
21 Penalty on master or owner for non-compliance with provisions as to passenger steamers.
22 Overcrowding of passenger steamers.
23, 24. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Part III Seamen’s Food
25, 26. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
27 Certificated cooks for foreign-going ships.
Part IV Provisions as to Relief and Repatriation of Distressed Seamen, and Seamen left behind Abroad
28—43. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
44 Deduction from wages and payment to superintendents, &c., of fines.
45—48. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
49 Definitions of proper authority and seamen.
Part V Miscellaneous
50 Ships’ names.
51. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
52. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
53Amendment of 57 & 58 Vict, c. 60. s. 48.
54—55. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
56 Secound mate certificates allowed in small foreign-going sailing ships.
57. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
58 Title to be rated as A.B.
59—63. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
64. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
65. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
66–68. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
69. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
70, 71. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
72 Delivery of wreck to receiver.
73. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
74. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
75 Substitution of ship surveyor for shipwright surveyor.
76 Return to be furnished by masters of ships as to passengers.
77 Return as to cattlemen brought to the United Kingdom.
78 Dispensing powers of the Board of Trade.
79 Power to appoint advisory committees.
80 Power to register Government ships under the Merchant Shipping Acts.
81. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
82 Amendment of procedure in Scotland.
83. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Part VI Supplemental
84 Construction of references to Merchant Shipping Acts.
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86†Short title and commencement.
SCHEDULE 1
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Merchant Shipping Act 1906

1906 c.48

An Act to amend the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1900.

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1

Power to adapt provisions of Act conferred by Merchant Shipping Act 1970 (c. 36), s. 90

C2

Functions of Board of Trade now exercisable by Secretary of State by virtue of S.I. 1970/1537, art. 2 and S.I. 1983/1127, art. 2(4)

C3

Act amended by S.I. 1983/708, regs. 1(3)(4)(b), 2

C5

Act excluded by S.I. 1989/1991, arts. 11–14