Merchant Shipping Act, 1951 (Act No. 57 of 1951)

Country, Province or Territory

No. and Year

Title or Subject

Extent of Repeal or Amendment

United Kingdom

Chapter 60, 1894

Merchant Shipping Act, 1894

The repeal of the whole of the Act mentioned and of all Acts adding to or amending it in so far as they are in force in the Union.

Cape of Good Hope

Act No. 13 of 1855

Local Merchant Seaman’s Act, 1855

The repeal of the whole.

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Act No. 3 of 1863

Local Merchant Seaman’s Amendment Act, 1863

The repeal of the whole.

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Act No. 13 of 1874

Local Merchant Shipping Act, 1874

The repeal of the whole.

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Act No. 18 of 1905

Merchant Shipping Act, 1905

The repeal of the whole.

Natal

Law No. 4 of 1871

To facilitate the carrying out in the Colony of the provisions of the Foreign Deserters Act, 1852 of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

The repeal of the whole.

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Law No. 23 of 1875

Local Merchant Seamen’s Law

The repeal of the whole.

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Law No. 10 of 1883

Shipping Casualties Law, 1883

The repeal of the whole.

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Law No. 4 of 1884

To amend the Shipping Casualties Law, 1883

The repeal of the whole.

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Law No. 1 of 1890

To make provision in respect of the appliances to be carried by certain ships for saving life at sea

The repeal of the whole.

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Act No. 5 of 1895

To amend certain Natal Laws relating to shipping

The repeal of the whole.

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Act No. 50 of 1903

To amend the law relating to foreign seamen

The repeal of the whole.

Union

Act No. 17 of 1923

Births, Marriages and Deaths Registration Act, 1923

The repeal of sections thirty-six and thirty-seven.

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Act No. 45 of 1925

Merchant Shipping (Certificates of Competency) Act, 1925

The repeal of the whole.

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Act No. 16 of 1929

Merchant Shipping Act, 1929

The repeal of the whole.

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Act No. 42 of 1934

Merchant Shipping (Certificates of Competency) Amendment Act, 1934

The repeal of the whole.

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Act No. 24 of 1936

Insolvency Act, 1936

The insertion after

subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section seventeen of the following new subparagraph:—

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“(ii)bis every officer having

charge of a register of ships

kept at a port of registry

appointed as such in terms of

paragraph (c) of section four of

the Merchant Shipping Act,

1951, for the registration of

ships”;

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and the insertion after subsection (3) of section seventeen of the following new subsection:—.

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“(3)bis Upon the receipt by any officer referred to in subparagraph (ii)bis of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of a sequestration order he shall enter a caveat against the transfer of every ship or share in a ship or the cancellation or cessation of every deed of mortgage of a ship or share in a ship registered in the name of or belonging to the insolvent or his or her spouse”.

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Act No. 17 of 1938

Finance Act, 1938

The repeal of sections sixteen and seventeen

South-West Africa

Administrator’s Proclamation No. 12 of 1929

Merchant Shipping (Walvis Bay) Proclamation,1929

The repeal of the whole.