# Merchant Shipping (International Labour Conventions) Act 1925 (repealed 1.5.1995), Section 5: Interpretation.

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

In this Act—
The expression “young person” means a person who is under the age of eighteen years:
The expression “ship” means any sea-going ship or boat of any description which is registered in the United Kingdom as a British ship, and includes any British fishing-boat entered in the fishing-boat register, but does not include any tug, dredger, sludge vessel barge, or other craft whose ordinary course of navigation does not extend beyond the seaward limits of the jurisdiction of the harbour authority of the port at which such vessel is regularly employed, if and so long as such vessel is engaged in her ordinary occupation.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/15-16/42/section/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-international-labour-conventions-act-1925-repealed-151995/section-5
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