Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Act, 1920

MERCHANT SHIPPING (AMENDMENT) ACT 1920

CHAPTER 2.

An Act to amend section six hundred and fifty-nine of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. [26th March 1920.]

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 Parlament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Amendment of s. 659 of 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60.

1. The power of His Majesty, under section six hundred and fifty-nine of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, as amended by subsequent enactments, by Order in Council to fix the annual or other sums to be paid out of the General Lighthouse Fund in respect of the establishment of the general lighthouse authorities, shall extend to fixing the annual or other sums to be paid out of that fund to members of the general lighthouse authority for England and Wales, and the sums so fixed shall have effect notwithstanding anything in any Act limiting the amount thereof.

Short title.

2. This Act may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Act, 1920, and shall be included amongst the Acts which may be cited together as the Merchant shipping Acts, 1894 to 1920.