Article 11 Exceptions and modifications to the Merchant Shipping Acts

Nothing contained in the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1988 providing that an owner of a ship shall be guilty of an offence or shall be subject to any penalty, or providing for the forfeiture, detention, distress or poinding and sale of a ship or of anything on or belonging to a ship, shall, so far as it provides, have any application to a Ministry of Defence ship or anything on or belonging to such a ship.