Article 7

Where any provision of the Merchant Shipping Acts which by virtue of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1906, and this Order is applicable to Government ships in the service of the Colonial Government imposes any duty or liability or confers any right or power upon or contemplates any act being performed by the owner of a ship such duty, liability, right or power shall, subject always to the other provisions of this Order be carried out, borne, or exercised by the Colonial Government on behalf of His Majesty.