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title: "Merchant Shipping Act 1950"
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# Merchant Shipping Act 1950

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

Merchant Shipping Act 1950
1950 c.9
An Act to provide for regulating crew accommodation in fishing boats and for amending the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1949, with respect to the engagement and discharge of crews, the review of punishments imposed by naval courts, fishing boats engaged in the Newfoundland cod fisheries, and proceedings in summary courts in Northern Ireland; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[12th July 1950]

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



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



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



## SCHEDULES 1, 2 {#schedule-1}

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