Merchant Shipping Act 1979

50 Interpretation and repeals

(1) This Act shall be construed as one with the Merchant Shipping Acts.

(2) In this Act—

• " the Commission " means the Pilotage Commission;

• " contravention " includes failure to comply ;

• " functions " includes powers and duties ;

• " the Merchant Shipping Acts " means the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1977 and, except in sections 22(3)(a) and 37(5) of this Act and the preceding subsection, this Act; and

• " modifications" includes additions, omissions and alterations, and related expressions shall be construed accordingly.

(3) Section 4 of the [1919 c. 92.] Aliens Restriction (Amendment) Act 1919 (which prohibits an alien from holding a pilotage certificate for a pilotage district in the United Kingdom except in certain cases) shall cease to have effect.

(4) The enactments mentioned in the first and second columns of Schedule 7 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule; but nothing in Part I of that Schedule shall affect the operation of any enactment in relation to such an occurrence as mentioned in section 19(4) of this Act.