Merchant Shipping Act 1906

1. Introductory Text

2. PART I Safety

   1. 1. Application, of British load-line provisions to foreign ships

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

   3. 3. Loading of grain cargoes on foreign ships

   4. 4. Power to apply rules as to life-saving appliances to foreign ships in certain cases

   5. 5. Appointed Day

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

   7. 7. Coasting steamships not to be exempt from load-line provisions

   8. 8. Extension of provisions as to the time of marking load-line

   9. 9. Entry in log-book of boat drill, &c

   10. 10. Loading of timber

   11. 11. Summary prosecution for offences under the loading of grain provisions

   12. 12. Prohibition of engagement of seamen with insufficient knowledge of English

3. PART II Passenger and Emigrant Ships

   1. 13. Inclusion of foreign steamships as passenger steamers

   2. 14. Definition of steerage passenger

   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. Regulations substituted for Schedules 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 of principal Act

   6. 18. Copies of scale of provisions applicable to voyage to be produced to steerage passenger and posted up in ship

   7. 19. Provision as to the time at which a steerage passenger is to be ready to embark

   8. 20. Power to allow continuing master's bond

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

   10. 22. Overcrowding of passenger steamers

   11. 23. Sale of steerage passages

   12. 24. Frauds in inducing or attempting to induce persons to engage passages

4. PART III Seamen's Food

   1. 25. Statutory scale of provisions

   2. 26. Inspection of provisions and water

   3. 27. Certificated cooks for foreign-going ships

5. PART IV Provisions as to Relief and Repatriation of Distressed Seamen, and Seamen left behind Abroad

   1. 28. Dealing with wages and effects of a seaman who is left behind

   2. 29. Property of seaman dying on a ship the voyage of which does not terminate in the United Kingdom

   3. 30. Sanction required for discharge of seamen out of the United Kingdom

   4. 31. Certificate of discharge abroad

   5. 32. Repatriation of seamen on termination of service at foreign port

   6. 33. Discharge, &c. of seamen on change of ownership of ship at a foreign port

   7. 34. Expenses of medical attendance in case of injury or illness

   8. 35. Recovery of expenses from owner

   9. 36. Certificate of proper authority required where a seaman is left behind abroad

   10. 37. Account of wages in case of seaman left behind on ground of unfitness or inability to proceed to sea

   11. 38. Payment of wages of seaman left behind on ground of unfitness or inability to proceed to sea

   12. 39. Application by British consular officer of payments, on account of wages of seamen left behind

   13. 40. Regulations as to relief and maintenance of distressed seamen

   14. 41. Provisions for relief and maintenance of distressed seamen

   15. 42. Recovery of expenses of relief of distressed seamen

   16. 43. Penalty for forcing seamen on shore

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

   18. 45. Proper return port

   19. 46. Mode of providing for return

   20. 47. Decision of questions as to return by proper authority

   21. 48. Provisions as to taking distressed seamen on ships

   22. 49. Definitions of "proper authority" and "seamen"

6. PART V Miscellaneous

   1. 50. Ships' names

   2. 51. Power to inquire into the title of a registered ship to be registered

   3. 52. Provisions with respect to mortgages of ships sold to foreigners

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

   5. 54. Deduction of spaces used for water ballast in ascertaining tonnage

   6. 55. Crew space of foreign ships

   7. 56. Second mate certificates allowed in small foreign-going sailing ships

   8. 57. Powers of court in case of unreasonable delay in paying masters' wages

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

   10. 59. Notice of disrating of seaman

   11. 60. Power to except claims from release on settlement of wages

   12. 61. Obligation to offer allotment notes

   13. 62. Time for payment of allotment note

   14. 63. Master to give facilities to seamen for remitting wages

   15. 64. Increase of crew space

   16. 65. Provisions as to failure to join ship and desertion

   17. 66. Appeal from decision on investigation as to shipping casualties

   18. 67. Power of naval court to send a person sentenced to imprisonment home to undergo sentence

   19. 68. Appeal from naval courts

   20. 69. Calculation of tonnage of steamship for the purpose of limitation of liability

   21. 70. Liability of shipowners as respects ships launched but not registered

   22. 71. Liability of charterer

   23. 72. Delivery of wreck to receiver

   24. 73. Alien pilotage certificates

   25. 74. Provisions as to superintendence, &c

   26. 75. Substitution of ship surveyor for shipwright surveyor

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

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

   29. 78. Dispensing powers of the Board of Trade

   30. 79. Power to appoint advisory committees

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

   32. 81. Application of certain sections of principal Act to Scotland

   33. 82. Amendment of procedure in Scotland

   34. 83. Amendment of s.744 of 57 & 58 Vict. c.60, as respects Scottish whalers

7. PART VI Supplemental

   1. 84. Construction of references to Merchant Shipping Acts

   2. 85. Repeal

   3. 86. Short title and commencement

8. SCHEDULES.

   1. FIRST SCHEDULE

      Scale of Provisions

      1. CONDITIONS AND EXCEPTIONS IN APPLYING SCALE.

         1. 1. The issue of provisions for which a total weekly, and...

         2. 2. The issue of soft bread under the scale shall not...

         3. 3. An equal quantity of fish, up to an amount not...

         4. 4. Within the tropics, a pound and a half of preserved...

         5. 5. Fresh potatoes must be issued for at least the first...

         6. 6. Fresh vegetables, or vegetables preserved in tins, may at any...

         7. 7. A mixture of coffee and chicory containing not less than...

         8. 8. The. dried fruit issued under the above scale must be...

         9. 9. The onions to be issued under the above scale must...

         10. 10. In port— (a) soft bread shall be issued in lieu...

         11. 11. The stokehold hands are to receive sufficient oatmeal and one...

      2. SUBSTITUTES AND EQUIVALENTS—TO BE USED WITHOUT REASONABLE CAUSE.

   2. SECOND SCHEDULE

      Enactments Repealed