Merchant Shipping Act, 1894

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Effect of registry of fishing boat.

31 & 32 Vict. c. 45.

46 & 47 Vict. c. 22.

374. In all legal proceedings against the owner or skipper of, or any person belonging to, any boat entered in the fishing boat register, either for an offence against the fishery regulations or regulations as to lights in the Sea Fisheries Act, 1868, or for an offence against the Sea Fisheries Act, 1883, or for the recovery of damages for injury done by such boat, the register shall be conclusive evidence that the persons entered therein at any date as owners of the boat were at that date owners thereof, and that the boat is a British sea-fishing boat: Provided that—

(a) this enactment shall not prevent any proceedings being instituted against any person not so entered who is beneficially interested in the boat; and

(b) this enactment shall not affect the rights of the owners among themselves, or the rights of any owner entered in the register against any person not so entered who is beneficially interested in the boat; and

(c) save as aforesaid, entry in the fishing boat register shall not confer, take away, or affect any title to or interest in any fishing boat.