Merchant Shipping (Colonial Inquiries) Act 1882
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1882 c. 76 |
| Year | 1882 |
Merchant Shipping (Colonial Inquiries) Act, 1882.
(45 & 46 Vict.) CHAPTER 76.
An Act to amend the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1854 to 1880, with respect to Colonial Courts of Inquiry.
[18th August 1882]
W HEREAS it is expedient to amend the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1854 to 1880, with respect to Inquiries held in British possessions abroad into charges of incompetency or misconduct on the part of masters, mates, or engineers of ships, or into shipwrecks or other casualties affecting ships:
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 Short title.
1. This Act may be cited as theMerchant Shipping (Colonial Inquiries) Act, 1882.
2 Construction of Act.
2. This Act shall be construed as one with the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, and the Acts amending the same, and the said Acts and this Act may be cited collectively as the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1854 to 1882.
3 Colonial courts or tribunals to have jurisdiction to make inquiry into charges of misconduct or incompetency and shipping casualties in certain cases occurring outside the limits of the colony.
3. Every court or tribunal which is already authorised or which may hereafter be authorised by the legislative authority in any British possession to make inquiry into charges of incompetency or misconduct on the part of masters, mates, or engineers of ships, or as to shipwrecks or other casualties affecting ships, shall in the cases following; that is to say,
I. When the incompetency or misconduct has occurred on board of a British ship on or near the coasts of the British possession or on board of a British ship in the course of a voyage to a port within the British possession:
II. When the incompetency or misconduct has occurred in any part of the world on board a British ship registered in the British possession:
III. When the shipwreck or casualty occurs to a British ship on or near the coasts of the British possession or to a British ship in the course of a voyage to a port within the British possession:
IV. When the shipwreck or casualty occurs in any part of the world to a British ship...
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