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Obligation to take precautions to prevent grain cargo from shifting.
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452.[1]
—(1) Where a grain cargo is laden on board any British ship all necessary and reasonable precautions (whether mentioned in this Part of this Act or not) shall be taken in order to prevent the grain cargo from shifting.
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(2) If those precautions have not been taken in the case of any British ship, the master of the ship and any agent of the owner who was charged with the loading of the ship or the sending of her to sea, shall each be liable to a fine not exceeding [2]
three hundred pounds, and the owner of the ship shall also be liable to the same fine, unless he shows that he took all reasonable means to enforce the observance of this section, and was not privy to the breach thereof.
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[1 Applied to foreign ships loading grain cargoes in the United Kingdom, so long as the ship is within a port in the United Kingdom, by 6 Edw. 7. c. 48. s. 3.]
[2 Or, if the offence be prosecuted summarily, one hundred pounds, see 6 Edw. 7. c. 48. s. 11.] |
