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Crew space of foreign ships.
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55. Subsection (1) of section eighty-four of the principal Act shall be read as if the following words were added thereto, namely, “and any space shown by the certificate of registry or “other national papers of any such ship as deducted from “tonnage on account of being occupied by seamen or “apprentices, and appropriated to their use, shall be deemed to have “been certified under this Act, and to comply with the “provisions of this Act which apply to such a space in the case of “British ships, unless a surveyor of ships certifies to the Board “of Trade that the construction and the equipment of the ship “as respects that space do not come up to the standard required “under this Act in the case of a British ship, and if any “question arises whether the construction and the equipment of the “ship so come up to the required standard a surveyor of ships “may inspect the ship for purpose of determining whether such “a certificate should be given by him or not.”
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