Merchant Shipping Act, 1894

Notices, &c. to be in writing and provision as to sending by post.

739.(1) Where by this Act any notice, authority, order, direction, or other communication is required or authorised to be given or made by the Board of Trade, or the [1] Commissioners of Customs, or the governor of a British possession, to any person not being an officer of such Board, or Commissioners, or governor, the same shall be given or made in writing.

(2) Where any notice or document is by this Act required or authorised to be transmitted or sent, the same may be transmitted or sent by post.

[1 Now styled Commissioners of Customs and Excise, see 8 Edw. 7. c. 16 s. 4, and Stat. Rules and Orders, 1909, No. 197.]