British Shipping (Assistance) Act 1935
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1935 c. 7 |
| Year | 1935 |
British Shipping (Assistance) Act, 1935.
(25 & 26 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 7.
An Act to make provision for the granting of financial assistance to the owners of ships registered in the United Kingdom in respect of tramp voyages carried out during the year nineteen hundred and thirty-five, and to persons qualified to be owners of British ships in respect of proposals for the improvement of merchant shipping fleets; to provide for the repeal of section eighteen of the Economy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1926; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[26th February 1935]
Be it enacted by the King'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:—
Part I.
Subsidy in Respect of Tramp Voyages.
1 Payment of subsidy.
(1) For the purpose of helping the owners of vessels registered at ports in the United Kingdom to of compete with foreign shipping in receipt of subsidies from foreign Governments, the Board of Trade may, subject to such directions as may be given by the Treasury, and upon recommendations made by an advisory committee (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Tramp Shipping Subsidy Committee’) appointed for the purposes of this Part of this Act by the Board with the concurrence of the Treasury, pay to the owners of vessels eligible for subsidy under this Part of this Act subsidies in respect of tramp voyages or parts of tramp voyages carried out by such vessels in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-five:
Provided that no such subsidies shall be paid in respect of any voyage wholly between ports within the United Kingdom, Irish Free State, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.
(2) The vessels eligible for subsidy under this Part of this Act are vessels to which this Act applies, being vessels registered at ports in the United Kingdom, which have been British ships since the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-four or, in the case of vessels completed after that date, since they were completed, so, however, that vessels completed after that date shall not be eligible for subsidy unless they were built in the United Kingdom.
(3) It shall be the duty of the Tramp Shipping Subsidy Committee to advise the Board generally as to the operation of this Part of this Act, and in particular as to the making of payments by way of subsidies under this Part of this Act and the terms and conditions upon which such payments should be made, and in considering any recommendations to be made to the Board of Trade under this Part of this Act the Committee shall have regard to the purpose for which the Board are empowered to grant subsidies under this Part of this Act and shall not recommend payment of a subsidy in respect of any tramp voyage if, in the opinion of the Committee, the voyage was undertaken without due regard to the necessity for co-operation between owners of British vessels in furthering that purpose.
(4) The Board of Trade may appoint secretaries to the Tramp Shipping Subsidy committee, and the Committee may employ such officers and servants as the Committee may, with the consent of the Board and of the Treasury, determine; and there shall be paid as part of the expenses incurred by or on behalf of the Board of Trade under this Part of this Act to the secretaries and to any officers and servants so appointed such salaries and allowances as may be determined by the Board with the approval of the Treasury.
(5) The sums necessary for the payment of subsidies under this section and for the payment of any expenses incurred by or on behalf of the Board of Trade under this Part of this Act shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament and shall not exceed in the aggregate two million pounds.
Part II.
Merchant Shipping Fleets.Assistance to Shipowners proposing to Improve
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