ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM от GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND PASSED IN THE SESSION HELD IN THE 45TH & 46TH YEARS OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY, QUEEN VICTORIA, BEING THE THIRD SESSION OF THE TWENTY-SECOND PARLIAMENT OF THE OTTAWA: PRINTED BY BROWN CHAMBERLIN, LAW PRINTEr (for canadA) TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. ANNO DOMINI, 1883. QUI-MAL 45-46 VICTORIA. CHAP. 76. An Act to amend the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1854 to A. D. 1882. 1880, with respect to Colonial Courts of Inquiry. [18th August, 1882.] WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Merchant Ship- 17 & 18 Vic., ping Acts, 1854 to 1880, with respect to Inquiries held c. 104, &c. in British possessions abroad into charges of incompetency Be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords' Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the Merchant Shipping Short title. (Colonial Inquiries) Act, 1882. 2. This Act shall be construed as one with the Merchant Construction Shipping Act, 1854 and the Acts amending the same, and of Act. the said Acts and this Act may be cited collectively as the Merchant Shipping Acts 1854 to 1882. tribunals to 3. Every court or tribunal which is already authorized or Colonial which may hereafter be authorized by the legislative author- court or ity in any British possession to make inquiries into charges have jurisdicof incompetency or misconduct on the part of masters, mates tion to make inquiry into or engineers of ships, or as to shipwrecks or other casualties charges of affecting ships, shall in the cases following; that is to say, misconduct or incompet ency and casualties in I. When the incompetency and misconduct has occurred shipping on board of a British ship on or near the coasts of the certain cases British possession or on board of a British ship in the occurring course of a voyage to a port within the British possession: VOL I-A outside the |