Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Act, 1939

Definitions.

1.—(1) In this Act—

the expression “the Minister” means the Minister for Industry and Commerce;

the expression “the Principal Act” means the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894;

the expression “the Act of 1933” means the Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1933 (No. 42 of 1933).

(2) Every word and expression used in this Act to which a particular meaning is assigned by the Principal Act for the purposes of that Act, shall have in this Act the meaning so assigned to it.