Merchant Shipping Act 1950

Consequential amendments of principal Act (Section 4 of 1948 Act)

11 In relation to fishing boats to which regulations made under section one of this Act apply, section seventy-nine of the principal Act (which authorises certain deductions in ascertaining the register tonnage of ships) shall have effect as if in sub-paragraph (a) (i) of subsection (1) for the words "any space occupied by seamen or apprentices and appropriated to their use, which is certified under the regulations scheduled to this Act with regard thereto" there were substituted the words " any space provided by way of crew accommodation which is certified under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1950, to be space deductible under this section ".

12 In relation to a fishing boat of any foreign country, being a fishing boat to which regulations made under section one of this Act would apply if she were a British fishing boat and were registered in the United Kingdom under Part I or Part IV of the principal Act, subsection (1) of section eighty-four of the principal Act (which as amended by section fifty-five of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1906, provides for the ascertainment of the tonnage of certain foreign ships) shall have effect subject to the following modifications, that is to say:—

(a) for the words " shall be deemed to have been certified under this Act and to comply with the provisions of this Act which apply to such a space in the case of British ships " there shall be substituted the words " shall be deemed to have been specified in a certificate issued under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1950, and to comply with regulations made under section one of that Act ";

(b) for the words " the standard required under this Act in the case of a British ship " there shall be substituted the words " the standard which would be required under or for the purposes of those regulations if she were a British fishing boat registered in the United Kingdom under Part I or Part IV of this Act ".

13 Section two hundred and ten of the principal Act and the Sixth Schedule to that Act shall not apply to any fishing boat to which regulations made under section one of this Act apply (but without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph 1 of this Schedule):

Provided that any certificate given in relation to any such fishing boat as aforesaid, under paragraph (3) of the said Sixth Schedule before the date on which the regulations apply thereto shall have effect for the purposes of this Act and of the principal Act as if it had been given under paragraph 6 of this Schedule.