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BRITISH SHIPS (TRANSFER RESTRICTION) ACT 1915
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CHAPTER 21.
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An Act to restrict the transfer of British Ships to Persons not qualified to own British Ships. [16th March 1915.]
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BE it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
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Regulation of transfer of British ship to unqualified persons.
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1. A transfer made after the twelfth day of February nineteen hundred and fifteen of a British ship registered in the United Kingdom, or a share therein, to a person not qualified to own a British ship, shall not have any effect unless the transfer is approved by the Board of Trade on behalf of His Majesty, and any person who makes, or purports to make, such a transfer after the commencement of this Act without that approval shall, in respect of each offence, be guilty of a misdemeanour.
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Application to ships registered at foreign ports of registry and British possessions.
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2. This Act shall apply to British ships registered at foreign ports of registry and to British ships registered in any British possession other than those mentioned in the Schedule to this Act as it applies to British ships registered in the United Kingdom.
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Short title, construction, and duration.
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3.—(1) This Act may be cited as the British Ships (Transfer Restriction) Act, 1915, and shall be read as one with the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1914.
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(2) This Act shall have effect only during the continuance of the present war.
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SCHEDULE.
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British India.
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The Dominion of Canada.
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The Commonwealth of Australia (including Papua and Norfolk Island).
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The Dominion of New Zealand.
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The Union of South Africa.
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Newfoundland.
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