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Article 10

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Nothing contained in the Merchant Shipping Acts providing that an owner of a ship shall be guilty of any 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 so provides, have any application to a registered Ministry ship or anything on or belonging to such a ship.