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title: "Merchant Shipping (Mercantile Marine Fund) Act 1898"
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# Merchant Shipping (Mercantile Marine Fund) Act 1898

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

Merchant Shipping (Mercantile Marine Fund) Act 1898
1898 c.44
An Act to amend the Law with regard to the provision for the payment of certain Expenses under the Merchant Shipping Act 1894, and with regard to the levying of Light Dues.
[12th August 1898]

## 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-1}



## 1A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-1A}



## 2 Transfer of certain light dues and charges to General Lighthouse Fund. {#section-2}

(1), (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

## 2A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-2A}



## 2B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-2B}



## 3 Fees for registration, transfer, &c. of ships. {#section-3}

Such fees shall be paid in respect of the registration, transfer (including transmission), and mortgage of British ships as the Board of Trade, with the consent of the Treasury, determine . . . and all such fees shall be paid into the Exchequer. Provided that fees shall not be payable under this section in respect of vessels not exceeding ten tons gross register employed solely in fishing.

## 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-4}



## 5 Scale of Light dues. {#section-5}

(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

## 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-6}



## 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-7}



## 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-8}



## 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-9}



## FIRST SCHEDULE {#schedule-FIRST}

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## SECOND SCHEDULE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#schedule-2}



## THIRD SCHEDULE {#schedule-THIRD}

I. Lighthouse maintained by the Board of Trade out of Money voted by Parliament
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II.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

## FOURTH SCHEDULE {#schedule-FOURTH}

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