Merchant Shipping Act, 1906

Detention of foreign ships when unsafe owing to defective equipment, &c.

2. Section four hundred and sixty-two of the principal Act (which relates to the detention of foreign ships)—

(1) shall apply in the case of a ship which is unsafe by reason of the defective condition of her hull, equipments, or machinery, and accordingly that section shall be construed as if the words “by reason of the “defective condition of her hull, equipments, or “machinery, or” were inserted before the words “by reason of overloading or improper loading”; and

(2) shall apply with respect to any foreign ships being at any port in the United Kingdom, whether those ships take on board any cargo at that port or not.