Shipping, survey costs (1877) (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

ANNO QUADRAGESIIVIO PRIMO

VICTORI}E REGINE

No. 14

An Act to vest in certain Officers of Customs in this Colony

certain powers which, by The Merchant Shipping

Act, 1871,' are, in the United Kingdom, vested in the

Board of Trade. [Assented to 16th August, 1877.

HEREAS by section seven of The Merchant Shipping Act, Preamble

1871,' it is provided that the costs of any survey made in 344,- 35 vie.,

W pursuance of the provisions of that section shall be paid in the first C. no

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Repayment of Costs of Survey of Merchant Ships

instance by the Board of Trade out of the Mercantile Marine Fund, and shall be repaid to the said Board, as in the said section mentioned ; and whereas the said provision is not applicable to the case of surveys made in pursuance of the said section in this Colony, and it is expedient to provide for such cases : Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :—

Principal officer	1. The costs of any survey made in pursuance of the provisions
of customs to

pay costs of sur-	of the said seventh section of The Merchant Shipping Act, 1871,'
veys under sec. 7	which by the said section are to be paid within the United Kingdom
of 34 S 35 Vie,
0.110	by the Board of Trade out of the Mercantile Marine Fund, shall within this Colony be paid by the principal officer of customs at the port within or nearest to which such survey is held; and such
And to he repaid	principal officer, having paid any such costs, shall be entitled to have
the same	the same repaid to him, by the person or persons upon whose demand or in consequence of whose allegation the survey was made, or by- the master or owner of the ship, in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as, within the United Kingdom, the Board of Trade is so entitled.

WILLIAM C. F. ROBINSON,

GOVERNOR.