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Merchant Shipping Act 1979
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Changes over time for: Cross Heading: Maximum fines of £200 and £20 a day
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Maximum fines of £200 and £20 a dayU.K.
5In subsection (2) of section 48 of the M1Merchant Shipping Act 1894 (which among other things provides that if default is made in registering an alteration of a ship or in registering a ship anew as required by that section the owner shall be liable to a fine of up to £100 and a further fine of up to £5 for each day during which the offence continues after conviction) for the words “one hundred pounds” there shall be substituted the words “two hundred pounds” and for the words “five pounds” there shall be substituted the words “twenty pounds”.
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6In subsections (2)(d) and (6A) of section 1 of the M2Merchant Shipping Act 1965 (which authorise tonnage regulations to provide for fines not exceeding £100 for the contraventions and failures there mentioned) for the words “one hundred pounds” in subsection (2)(d) and the word “£100” in subsection (6A) there shall be substituted the word “£200”.
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7In Schedule 1 to the M3Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967 (which among other things provides for a fine of up to £50 on summary conviction of an offence under section 281(3) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 of not posting up a passenger steamer’s certificate) in column 3 of the entry relating to the said section 281(3) for the word “£50” there shall be substituted the word “£200”.
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8In sections 2(2), 3(4), 62(6) and 65(3) of the M4Merchant Shipping Act 1970 (which relate respectively to crew agreements, the discharge of seamen, the return of seamen left overseas and the property of deceased seamen and authorise regulations under the section in question to provide for maximum fines of £50 in the case of section 2(2) and £100 in other cases for contraventions of the regulations) for the word “£50” or, as the case may be, “£100” there shall be substituted the word “£200”.
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9In section 77(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970 (under which the punishment for stowing away is a fine not exceeding £100 or imprisonment not exceeding three months) for the words from “£100” onwards there shall be substituted the word “£200”.
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