Maritime Conventions Act, 1911

MARITIME CONVENTIONS ACT 1911

CHAPTER 57.

An Act to amend the Law relating to Merchant Shipping with a view to enabling certain Conventions to be carried into effect. [16th December 1911.]

WHEREAS at the Conference held at Brussels in the year nineteen hundred and ten two conventions, dealing respectively with collisions between vessels and with salvage, were signed on behalf of His Majesty, and it is desirable that such amendments should be made in the law relating to merchant shipping as will enable effect to be given to the conventions :

Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :

Provisions as to Collisions, &c.