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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 6Alteration of Penalties

PART VIMiscellaneous Penalties on Summary Conviction

Miscellaneous

15In Schedule 1 to the [1967 c. 27.] Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967 (under which any of the following offences, namely, an offence under section 283 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 of carrying passengers in excess, an offence under section 21 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1906 of not complying with provisions requiring a passenger steamer to be surveyed and to have a passenger steamer's certificate and an offence under section 12(3)(a) of the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1949 of going to sea without appropriate certificates, is punishable on summary conviction with a fine of up to £1,000 in some cases and £400 in others)—

(a)in column 3 of the entry relating to the said section 283, for the word " £400" there shall be substituted the word " £50,000 "; and

(b)in column 3 of the entries relating to the said sections 21 and 12(3)(a), for the word " £400 " there shall be substituted the word " £1,000 ".