Fees (Increase) Act 1923

1Increase of certain fees under Merchant Shipping Acts

(1)The provisions of the [57 & 58 Vict. c. 60.] Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and of the [61 & 62 Vict. c. 44.] Merchant Shipping (Mercantile Marine Fund) Act, 1898, specified in the first column of Part I. of the First Schedule to this Act so far as they limit the amount of fees chargeable under those Acts or grant exemptions from any such fees, shall have effect subject to the amendments mentioned in the third column of that Part of the Schedule:

Provided that no fees shall be payable under section three of the Merchant Shipping (Mercantile Marine Fund) Act, 1898, in respect of vessels not exceeding ten tons gross register employed solely in fishing.

(2)For the Schedules of the said Acts mentioned in Part II. of the First Schedule to this Act there shall be substituted the Schedules by that Part directed to be substituted therefor.