Merchant Seamen Act 1762
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1762 c. 31 |
| Year | 1762 |
(2 Geo. 3) C A P. XXXI.
'W H E R E A S the Law herein after mentioned, which hath, by Experience, been found useful and beneficial, is near expiring;' May it therefore please your most Excellent Majesty, that it may be enacted; and 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, That an Act made in the second Year of his late Majesty'sReign, intituled,An Act for the better Regulation and Government of Seamen in the Merchants Service , which was to be in force for five Years, from the twenty-fourth Day of June one thousand seven hundred and twenty-nine, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament; and which Act was, by an Act made in the eighth Year of the Reign of his said late Majesty, further continued until the twenty-fifth Day of March one thousand seven hundred and forty-nine, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament; and which Act was, by an Act made in the twenty-third Year of the Reign of his said late Majesty, further continued until the twenty-fifth Day of March one thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, is temporary, and near expiring; shall be, and is hereby, made perpetual.
II From and after 1 May 1764, all the Provisions, Penalties, Matters and Things in the said Act of 2 Geo. 2. are extended to his Majesty's Colonies in America; and the Forfeitures applicable to Greenwich Hospital are to be paid there to the Officer constituted by the Admiralty; and Masters of Ships deducting any of the said Forfeiture out of the Seamens Wages,
II. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the first Day ofMay one thousand seven...
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