Merchant Shipping Act, 1894

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Application and collection of light dues.

648.—(1) All light dues coming into the hands of any general lighthouse authority under this Act shall be carried to the [¹] Mercantile Marine Fund.

(2) Every person appointed to collect light dues by any of the general lighthouse authorities shall collect all light dues payable at the port at which he is so appointed, whether they are collected on account of the authority by whom he was appointed or on account of one of the other general lighthouse authorities.

(3) Any person so appointed to collect light dues shall pay over to the general lighthouse authority by whom he was appointed, or as that authority directs, the whole amount of light dues received by him; and the authority receiving the dues shall keep accounts thereof, and shall cause the dues to be remitted to Her Majesty’s Paymaster-General in such manner as the Board of Trade direct.

[¹ Now the General Lighthouse Fund, see 61 & 62 Vict. c. 44. s. 1 (1) (c).]