Merchant Shipping Act, 1894

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Allotments through savings banks.

142.—(1) An allotment in favour of a savings bank shall be made in favour of such persons and carried into effect in such manner as may be prescribed by regulations of the Board of Trade.

(2) The sum received by a savings bank in pursuance of an allotment, shall be paid out only on an application made, through a superintendent or the Board of Trade, by the seaman himself, or, in the case of his death, by some person to whom his property, if under one hundred pounds in value, may be paid under this Act.