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(1)The owners of any dock or canal, or a harbour authority or a conservancy authority, as defined by the M1Merchant Shipping Act 1894, shall not, where without their actual fault or privity any loss or damage is caused to any vessel or vessels, or to any goods, merchandise, or other things whatsoever on board any vessel or vessels, be liable to damages beyond an aggregate amount [F1equivalent to one thousand gold francs] for each ton of the tonnage of the largest registered British ship which, at the time of such loss or damage occurring, is, or within the period of five years previous thereto has been, within the area over which such dock or canal owner, harbour authority, or conservancy authority, performs any duty or exercises any power. A ship shall not be deemed to have been within the area over which a harbour authority or a conservancy authority performs any duty, or exercises any powers, by reason only that it has been built or fitted out within such area, or that it has taken shelter within or passed through such area on a voyage between two places both situate outside that area, or that it has loaded or unloaded mails or passengers within that area.
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(4)For the purpose of this section the term “dock” shall include wet docks and basins, tidal docks and basins, locks, cuts, entrances, dry docks, graving docks, gridirons, slips, quays, wharves, piers, stages, landing-places, and jetties.
(5)For the purposes of this section the term “owners of a dock or canal” shall include any person or authority having the control and management of any dock or canal, as the case may be.
(6)Nothing in this section shall impose any liability in respect of any such loss or damage on any such owners or authority in any case where no such liability would have existed if this Act had not passed.
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by virtue of Merchant Shipping (Liability of Shipowners and Others) Act 1958 (c. 62), s. 1(1)(b)(2)
F2S. 2(2)(3) repealed by Merchant Shipping Act 1979 (c. 39), ss. 50(4), 52(2), Sch. 7
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 2 amended by Merchant Shipping Act 1981 (c. 10, SIF 111), s. 1(4)
C2Power to extend s. 2 conferred by Merchant Shipping (Liability of Shipowners and Others) Act 1958 (c. 62), s. 11
C3Power to apply s. 2 with modifications (N.I.) conferred by Harbours Act (Northern Ireland) 1970 (c. 1), s. 1, Sch. 2 Pt. II para. 7
C4S. 2(1) amended by Merchant Shipping Act 1979 (c. 39), s. 52(2), Sch. 5 para. 1
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