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Regulations as to accommodation of steerage passengers.
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293.—(1) The regulations as to the accommodation for steerage passengers in the Eleventh Schedule[1]
to this Act, relating to the construction of passenger decks, to berths, to hospitals, to privies, and to the supply of light and ventilation, shall be observed in the case of all emigrant ships as if they were contained in this section.
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(2) If any requirement of this section is not complied with in the case of any emigrant ship, the owner charterer or master of the ship or any of them shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, except that the master shall alone be liable to the fine where he is in any such regulation expressed to be alone liable.
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[1 Reference to Board of Trade Regulations (see Stat. Rules and Orders, 1907, No. 739, p. 674), under 6 Edw. 7. c. 48, s. 17, substituted by that section.] |
