Merchant Shipping Repeal Act, 1854

Existing liabilities on Mercantile Marine Fund continued.

17 & 18 Vict. c. 104.

16 & 17 Vict. c 131.

8. Nothing in the [1] Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, or in this Act contained shall operate to prevent the exercise of the powers contained in the twelfth and sixteenth sections of the Merchant Shipping Law Amendment Act, 1853, of paying the debts, liabilities, and expenses therein mentioned out of the Mercantile Marine Fund: . . .

[S. 9 rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66. (S.L.R.)]

[1 See now the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), s. 745 of which repeals the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854.]