{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-mercantile-marine-fund-act-1898/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-mercantile-marine-fund-act-1898/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/61-62/44",
  "legislation_title": "Merchant Shipping (Mercantile Marine Fund) Act 1898",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-mercantile-marine-fund-act-1898",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Fees for registration, transfer, &c. of ships.",
  "text": "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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1949 (c. 43), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Fees (Increase) Act 1923 (c. 4), s. 1, Sch. 1 Pt. I"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/61-62/44/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:27:23.496800+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."
}