12.  The following sections of the Merchant Shipping Acts shall not apply to Queensland Government ships registered in pursuance of this Order namely:—

(i) the principal Act, sections 1, 2, 8 to 12, 16, 23, 27 to 38, 39 to 42 (so far as relating to mortgages), 43, 44 to 46 (so far as relating to mortgages), 48, 49, 50, 52, 54 to 58, 59(2) and (3), 62, 68 to 72, 74, 76, 84, 85, 87, 92 to 463, 468, 472, 492 to 501, 520(b), 567, 568, 634 to 665, 667 to 679, 689(2), (3) and (4), 692, 693, and 729(1)(d) and (3) (so far as relating to any papers or documents belonging to or in the possession of the Crown).

(ii) The Merchant Shipping Act 1897—the whole Act.

(iii) The Merchant Shipping (Mercantile Marine Fund) Act 1898—the whole Act.

(iv) The Merchant Shipping Act 1906—sections 9, 13 to 27, 35, 38(2), so much thereof as is subsequent to the word “master” where it occurs, (3), 51 to 53, 57, 76 and 77.

(v) The Merchant Shipping (Seamen's Allotment) Act 1911—the whole Act.

(vi) Any sections of the said Acts that are inconsistent with the laws of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, including any regulations or other instruments whatsoever made under those laws, in so far as they apply to Queensland Government ships:

Provided always that no provision of the Merchant Shipping Acts which, according to a reasonable construction, would not apply in the case of Queensland Government ships shall be deemed to apply to such ships by reason only that its application is not hereby expressly excluded.