Repealed1984 Revised EditionCurrent version · 1984 Revised EditionSee versions on Attorney General's Chambers(opens the publisher’s site)
Merchant Shipping Act · 1984 Revised Edition · Part IV · Control and Licensing of Ships
Merchant Shipping Act · 1984 Revised Edition · Part IV · Control and Licensing of Ships
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
In every contract of service, express or implied, between the owner of a ship and the master or any seaman thereof, there shall be implied, notwithstanding any agree-ment to the contrary, an obligation on the owner of the ship, that the owner of the ship, and the master, and every agent charged with the loading of the ship, or the preparing of the ship for sea, or the sending of the ship to sea, shall use all reasonable means to ensure the seaworthiness of the ship for the voyage at the time when the voyage commences, and to keep her in a seaworthy condition for the voyage during the voyage.
Nothing in this section
shall subject the owner of a ship to any liability by reason of the ship being sent to sea in an unseaworthy state where, owing to special cir-cumstances, the sending of the ship to sea in such a state was reasonable and justifiable; or
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Merchant Shipping
shall apply to any ship employed exclusively in trading or going from place to place in any river or inland water of which the whole or part is in
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Part IX