Administration of Justice Act 1956

49Repeals

(1)Section one hundred and sixty-five of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (which imposes restrictions on proceedings for the recovery of wages of seamen and apprentices) shall cease to have effect and is hereby repealed.

(2)So much of subsection (2) of section seventy-five of the Diseases of Animals Act, 1950, as enables a local authority to recover expenses incurred in burying or destroying carcases in the same manner as salvage is recoverable, shall cease to have effect; and accordingly the words in the said subsection (2) from "and the local authority" to the end of the subsection are hereby repealed.