Merchant Shipping Act, 1906

Amendment of s. 744 of 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, as respects Scottish whalers.

83. Section seven hundred and forty-four of the principal Act (which relates to the application of that Act to certain fishing vessels) shall not apply to ships engaged in the whale fisheries off the coast of Scotland and registered at ports in Scotland, and accordingly there shall be added, at the end of that section the words “and of ships engaged in the whale “fisheries off the coast of Scotland and registered at ports in “Scotland.”

Part VI.

Supplemental.