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(1)If any person uses or causes or permits to be used in navigation any lighter, barge, or like vessel when, through the defective condition of its hull or equipment or "by reason of overloading or improper loading or through undermanning, it is so unsafe that human life is likely to be thereby endangered, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.
(2)A prosecution under this section shall not, except in Scotland, be instituted otherwise than by, or with the consent of, the Board of Trade.
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