Sched. I.

SCHEDULES.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

TABLE OF MAXIMUM FEES TO BE PAID ON THE REGISTRATION,
TRANSFER AND MORTGAGE OF SHIPS.

with 10s. for every additional 100 tons, or fraction of a 100.

2.-Transfer and Mortgage.

2. On transfer, transmission, registry anew, transfer of registry, mortgage, and transfer of mortgage.

According to the gross tonnage represented by the ships or shares (a) of ships transferred, &c. (e.g., the transfer of a

share

in a ship of 6,400 tons to be reckoned as the transfer of 100 tons).

and a further fee of 2s. 6d. for every additional 50 tons, or part of 50 tons, up to 500 tons, after which 2s. 6d. for every 100 tons, or part of 100 tons.

Editors' Note:

(a) A fee is payable on each bill of sale. So where 166 bills of sale transferred 316 shares in six ships, it was held that the transferee was liable to pay a fee calculated on the tonnage in each bill of sale and not on the tonnage of each ship. Harrowing Steamship Company v. Tookey, 69 L. J. Q. B. 447; [1900] 2 Q. B. 28.

SECOND SCHEDULE (a).

LIGHT DUES.

Scale of Payments (b).

1. One penny per ton per voyage for home-trade sailing ships. 2. Twopence farthing per ton per voyage for foreign-going sailing ships.

3. One penny halfpenny per ton per voyage for home-trade

steamers.

4. Twopence three farthings per ton per voyage for foreigngoing steamers.

5. An annual payment in the place of payments per voyage of one shilling per ton for tugs and pleasure yachts.

Rules (b).

(1.) A ship shall not in any year be required to make payments on account of light dues

(a.) if the ship is a home-trade ship, for more than ten voyages;

and

(b.) if the ship is a foreign-going ship, for more than six
Voyages; and
(c.) if the ship makes voyages during the year both as a home-
trade and as a foreign-going ship, for more than ten
voyages, counting each voyage made as a foreign-going
ship as a voyage and a half.

Provided that no steamer shall be required to pay more than one shilling and fourpence halfpenny per ton, and that no sailing vessel shall be required to pay more than one shilling and a penny halfpenny per ton in any year.

(2.) A ship shall not pay dues both as a home-trade ship and as a foreign-going ship for the same voyage, but a ship trading from a port outside home-trade limits, and discharging cargo or landing passengers (c) or mails at any port within home-trade limits, shall be deemed to be on one voyage as a foreign-going ship, until she has arrived at the last port of discharge of cargo or passengers brought from beyond home-trade limits; and a ship trading to a port outside home-trade limits, and loading cargo or receiving passengers or mails at any port within home-trade limits, shall be deemed to be on one voyage as a foreign-going ship from the time she starts from the first port of loading of cargo or passengers destined for a port beyond home-trade limits.

Editors' Notes:

(a) This schedule has been amended by Orders in Council. See Appendix, p. 758.

(b) See, for the meanings of "home-trade ship," M. S. A. 1894, s. 742; "foreign-going ship," ibid. ss. 742, 744; and as to ships propelled by electricity, &c., ibid. s. 743.

(c) See s. 267 of M. S. A. 1894, and notes thereon, for explanation of term "passenger."

Sched. II.

Sched. II.

(3.) The voyage of a home-trade ship shall be reckoned from port to port, but a home-trade ship shall not be required to pay dues for more than three voyages in one month.

(4.) The voyage of a foreign-going ship trading outwards shall be reckoned from the first port of lading in the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man of cargo destined for a port outside home-trade limits.

(5.) The voyage of a foreign-going ship trading inwards shall be reckoned from her last port of lading outside home-trade limits to the last port in the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man at which any cargo laden outside those limits is discharged.

(6.) Dues payable per voyage under this Act shall be payable and collected only at ports where a ship loads or discharges cargo or passengers or mails.

(7.) The annual payments shall be payable at the commencement of the year in respect of which they are made, provided that a new vessel shall pay only one penny per ton for each month after the commencement of her first voyage till the first of April following. (8.) For the purposes of these rules

(a.) A ship's tonnage shall be reckoned as under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, for dues payable on a ship's tonnage, with the addition required in section eighty-five of that Act with respect to deck cargo, or in the case of an unregistered vessel (d) in accordance with the Thames measurement adopted by Lloyd's Register (e).

(b.) A year shall be reckoned from the day of the month on which this Act commences.

Exemptions.

There shall be exempted from dues under this Schedule:

Her Majesty's ships;

Ships belonging to foreign Governments;

Sailing ships (not being pleasure yachts) of less than one hundred tons, and all ships (not being pleasure yachts) of less than twenty tons;

Vessels (d) (other than tugs or pleasure yachts) when navigated wholly and bonâ fide in ballast, on which no freight is earned and without any passenger;

Ships putting in for bunker coal, stores, or provisions for their own use on board;

Vessels (d) for the time being employed in sea fishing or in sea fishing service, exclusive of vessels used for catching fish otherwise than for profit;

Editors' Notes:

(d) "Vessel" does not refer to vessels propelled by oars, because light dues are only payable in respect of "ships." See s. 5 of this Act and M. S. A. 1894, 8. 643, and definition of "ship" in s. 742 and notes (d) and (e) thereto.

(e) The rule for computing the Thames measurements is as follows:-From the length (measured from the foreside of stern to the afterside of stern-post on deck), deduct the breadth, multiply this result by the breadth, and that product by the half breadth, and divide by ninety-four.

Ships putting in from stress of weather, or for the purpose of
repairing, or because of damage, provided they do not
discharge or load cargo other than cargo discharged with
a view to such repairs, and afterwards reshipped;
Yachts and pleasure boats of under five tons registered shipping
tonnage.

Sched. III.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

I.-LIGHTHOUSES MAINTAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRADE OUT OF
MONEY VOTED BY PARLIAMENT.

Bahamas, 11 lighthouses as follows:

II. LIGHTHOUSES MAINTAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRADE OUT OF
COLONIAL LIGHT DUES LEVIED UNDER THE MERCHANT
SHIPPING ACT, 1894.

Minicoy Island, between the Laccadive and Maldive Islands.