Merchant Shipping (Fees and Expenses) Act 1880
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1880 c. 22 |
| Year | 1880 |
Merchant Shipping (Fees and Expenses) Act, 1880
(43 & 44 Vict.) CHAPTER 22.
An Act to amend the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, so far as regards certain Fees and Expenses and Sums receivable and payable by the Board of Trade.
[12th August 1880]
B E 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 and construction of Act.
1. This Act may be cited as theMerchant Shipping (Fees and Expenses) Act, 1880.
This Act shall be construed as one with the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, and the Acts amending the same, and together with those Acts may be cited as the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1854 to 1880.
2 Application of proceeds of unclaimed wreck towards payment of expenses connected with wreck.
2. Whereas under section four hundred and seventy-five of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, a receiver of wreck appointed under that Act is required to pay into the Exchequer the net proceeds of the sale of unclaimed wreck:
And whereas in pursuance of section four hundred and fifty-seven of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, the fees received by such receiver of wreck are carried to the Mercantile Marine Fund, and applied in defraying any expenses duly incurred in carrying into effect the purposes of the eighth part of that Act, in such manner as the Board of Trade direct:
And whereas the fees have been insufficient to defray such expenses, and the deficiency has been paid out of the said proceeds of unclaimed wreck, and the balance alone of such proceeds has been paid into the Exchequer, and it is expedient to sanction the payment of the said deficiency; be it therefore enacted as follows:
Any deficiency so paid as aforesaid, before the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty, out of the proceeds of unclaimed wreck, shall be deemed to have been properly paid.
3 Explanation of 14 & 15 Vict. c. 102. s. 43.
3. Whereas by section forty-three of the Seamen's Fund Winding-up Act, 1851, it is provided that a seaman who ceases altogether for a continuous period of three years to pay his contribution to the fund shall forfeit all claim to any relief for himself, his widow, and children; and it is...
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