Merchant Shipping Act 1979

14In subsection (5) of section 24 of the M1Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1949 (under which a master of a ship carrying grain who fails to deliver to customs the notice required by that section or delivers such a notice which is false in a material particular is liable to a fine not exceeding £100) for the words “one hundred pounds” there shall be substituted the words “two hundred pounds in the case of a failure and five hundred pounds in the case of a false statement”.

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