Merchant Seamen (Payment of Wages and Rating) Act, 1880

MERCHANT SEAMEN (PAYMENT OF WAGES AND RATING) ACT 1880

CHAPTER XVI.

An Act to amend the Law relating to the Payment of Wages and Rating of Merchant Seamen. [2nd August 1880.]

[Whole Act except 1st paragraph of s. 1. and s. 11. rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60. s. 745.]

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Merchant Seamen (Payment of Wages and Rating) Act, 1880.

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Extension to seamen of 38 & 39 Vict. c. 90.

11. [Repeal of 38 & 39 Vict. c. 90. s. 13, so far as it excludes seamen and apprentices to the sea service from that Act.]

The said Act shall apply to seamen and apprentices to the sea service accordingly; but such repeal shall not, in the absence of any enactment to the contrary, extend to or affect any provision contained in any other Act of Parliament passed, or to be passed, whereby workman is defined by reference to the persons to whom the Employers and Workmen Act, 1875, applies.

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