Article 8

Any Ministry fishing ship shall, notwithstanding that it is used for catching fish otherwise than for profit, be deemed to be a fishing boat for all purposes of Part IV of the principal Act and for the purposes of any provision in any other of the Merchant Shipping Acts, or in any order, rules, regulations or other instrument made thereunder, wherein “fishing boat” has the same meaning as the meaning given to that expression by section 370 of the principal Act.