TO THE Merchant Shipping Acts BEING A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE ACTS AND REGULATIONS THE MERCANTILE MARINE SECOND EDITION BY SANFORD D. COLE SOLICITOR Author of "Seamen and Compensation," Insurance Law," etc. JAMES BROWN & SON, NAUTICAL PUBLISHERS "THE NAUTICAL PRESS," POLLOKSHIELDS 1920 [Entered at Stationers' Hall] PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. A STEADY demand for this book has continued during and since the late war. The opportunity of a fresh edition has been taken to revise the work and bring it up to date by the inclusion of the more recent Acts, Regulations, and judicial decisions. New matter has been inserted in appropriate places in relation to the divisions of the principal Act, as explained in the Introduction. The most important changes are in connection with National Health Insurance, Transfer Restrictions, Aliens, and Wireless Telegraphy. The Act of 1919, dealing with the last-mentioned subject, substitutes new provisions for those which would have come into force under the Safety Convention Act, 1914. Owing to the war, the International Safety Convention has not yet been brought into operation. Probably further changes may be made in other parts of it before it takes effect. For this reason the Convention is dealt with separately in an Appendix, but it should be noted that, although its coming into force is deferred, some of its provisions are being acted on in fact. The Convention should not therefore be neglected. Besides the principal changes in the law dealt with, a number of smaller points of alteration have been inserted throughout the book, which, it is hoped, may continue to serve as a useful guide. With the increase in the number of amending Acts the need for a measure consolidating Merchant Shipping legislation into one Act has become greater. June 1920. V S. D. C. |