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  1. Introductory Text

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    Part I Safety

    1. 1.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    2. 2. Detention of foreign ships when unsafe owing to defective equipment, &c.

    3. 3, 4.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    4. 5.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    5. 6. Saving for ship coming in under stress of weather, &c.

    6. 7, 8.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    7. 9.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    8. 10.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    9. 11.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    10. 12.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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    Part II Passenger and Emigrant Ships

    1. 13. Inclusion of foreign steamships as passenger steamers.

    2. 14.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    3. 15. Passengers landed or embarked by means of tenders.

    4. 16. Restriction as to the decks on which passengers may be carried.

    5. 17—20.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    6. 21. Penalty on master or owner for non-compliance with provisions as to passenger steamers.

    7. 22. Overcrowding of passenger steamers.

    8. 23, 24.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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    Part III Seamen’s Food

    1. 25, 26.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    2. 27. Certificated cooks for foreign-going ships.

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    Part IV Provisions as to Relief and Repatriation of Distressed Seamen, and Seamen left behind Abroad

    1. 28—43.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    2. 44. Deduction from wages and payment to superintendents, &c., of fines.

    3. 45—48.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    4. 49. Definitions of proper authority and seamen.

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    Part V Miscellaneous

    1. 50. Ships’ names.

    2. 51.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    3. 52.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    4. 53.Amendment of 57 & 58 Vict, c. 60. s. 48.

    5. 54—55.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    6. 56. Secound mate certificates allowed in small foreign-going sailing ships.

    7. 57.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    8. 58. Title to be rated as A.B.

    9. 59—63.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    10. 64.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    11. 65.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    12. 66–68.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    13. 69.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    14. 70, 71.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    15. 72. Delivery of wreck to receiver.

    16. 73.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    17. 74.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    18. 75. Substitution of ship surveyor for shipwright surveyor.

    19. 76. Return to be furnished by masters of ships as to passengers.

    20. 77. Return as to cattlemen brought to the United Kingdom.

    21. 78. Dispensing powers of the Board of Trade.

    22. 79. Power to appoint advisory committees.

    23. 80. Power to register Government ships under the Merchant Shipping Acts.

    24. 81.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    25. 82. Amendment of procedure in Scotland.

    26. 83.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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    Part VI Supplemental

    1. 84. Construction of references to Merchant Shipping Acts.

    2. 85.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    3. 86.†Short title and commencement.

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