Merchant Shipping (Limitation of Liability) (Sterling Equivalents) Order, 1958

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1958/1287
Year1958

1958 No. 1287

The Merchant Shipping (Limitation of Liability) (Sterling Equivalents) Order, 1958

1stAugust 1958

1stAugust 1958

The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, in exercise of his powers under subsection (3) of section 1 of the Merchant Shipping (Liability of Shipowners and Others) Act, 1958(a), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby orders as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Limitation of Liability) (Sterling Equivalents) Order, 1958, and shall come into operation on the first day of August, 1958.

2. Seventy-three pounds eight shillings ten pence and five thirty-seconds of a penny, and twenty-three pounds thirteen shillings nine pence and twenty-seven thirty-seconds of a penny are hereby specified as the amounts which for the purposes of the aforesaid section 1 are to be taken as equivalent to three thousand one hundred and one thousand gold francs respectively.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation this first day of August, 1958.

R. B. Lang, An Under Secretary of the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation.

(L.S.)

(a) 6 & 7 Eliz. 2. c. 62.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This Note is not part of the Order, but is intended to indicate its general purport.)

This Order specifies the sums of £73 8s. 10 5/32d. and £23 13s. 9 27/32d. as the respective sterling equivalents of 3100 and 1000 gold francs, the amounts at which shipowners, harbour authorities and others may limit their liability under section 503 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and section 2...

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