{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1906/section-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1906/section-56.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw7/6/48",
  "legislation_title": "Merchant Shipping Act 1906",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1906",
  "path": "section/56",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Secound mate certificates allowed in small foreign-going sailing ships.",
  "text": "The following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section ninety-two of the principal Act (which relates to the certificates of competency to be held by officers of ships):—\n“(b) If the ship is of one hundred tons burden or upwards with at least one officer besides the master holding a certificate not lower than that of—\n(i) mate in the case of a home trade passenger ship;\n(ii) secound mate in the case of a foreign-going sailing ship of not more than two hundred tons burden ; and\n(iii) only mate in the case of any other foreign-going ship.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 56 repealed by Merchant Shipping Act 1970 (c. 36, SIF 111), Sch. 5 except to the extent (see S.I. 1981/1186, Sch. Appendix) that section 56 applies in relation to British ships registered outside the United Kingdom"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of s. 56 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/6/48/section/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:22:43.082652+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}