Passengers Act 1852 (SA)

No. 8.

An Act to extend t J ~ e Provisions of t l ~ e C L Pussengers' Act, 1849."

[Assented to 2nd November, 1852.1

4 AS, bp the " Passengers' Act, 1849," provision is made

W "" and subsistence, a id compensation moneys, and it is expedient to for the recovery of' penalties and forfeitures, and of passage,

estcnd the provisions of the said Act to the rctcovery of compensa-

tion for other matters than those therein specified:

Be it therefore Enactcd, hy the Lieutenant-Governor of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, That colnpensation for any breach of contract concerning the passage" of any " passenger?' on board of any passenger ship," may be sued for and recovered to the use of such passenger, from the mastcr of any such ship, in the same manner, and by

the samo persons, as by the said Act is prescribed with regard tb

sums of money thereby made recoverable, for return of passage money, subsistence money, or compensation; and that all thc pro- visions of the said Act, with regard to the recovery of the moneys so thereby made recoverable, s h l l apply to proceedings taken against such master for the recovery of compensation under tllc authority hereof, and that for the purposes of this Act, the master of such ship, shall, in any such proceedings, be deemed and taken

to Le the party complained against.

2. And be it Enacted, That, in the construction hereof, the Interpretation clauso

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terms passage, passenger, passenger ship," and master," respectively, shall have the same meaning as is given to m& terns in the said " Passengers' Act, 1849."

JOHN MORPHETT, Speaker.

Passed the Legislative Council this nineteenth

day o f October, one thousand eight

hundred andjf ty- two.

F. C. SINGLETON,

Clerk of the Legislative Council.

In the name and on the behalf of Her Majesty I assent to this Act.

H. E. F. YOUNG,

Lieutenant- Governor.

Government House, Adelaide,

2nd November, 1852.

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ADELAIDE: Printed by authority, by W. C. Cox, Go~ernment Printer, Victgria-square.

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