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Mersey Channels Act 1897 (repealed 1.1.1996)

60 & 61 Vict. c. 21 · Enacted 15 July 1897 · Extends to United Kingdom

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Act repealed (1.1.1996) by 1995 c. 21, ss. 314(1), 316(2), Sch. 12 (with ss. 312(1), Sch. 14 para. 1)

Contents

  1. 1Short title.
  2. 2Power to make rules for Mersey Channels.
  3. 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed

1Short title.

This Act may be cited as the Mersey Channels Act 1897.

2Power to make rules for Mersey Channels.

The powers conferred upon Her Majesty in Council by section four hundred and twenty-one, sub-section (2), of the M1Merchant Shipping Act 1894, shall extend to and include the power to make rules concerning lights and signals to be carried or the steps for avoiding collision to be taken by vessels navigating the sea channels or approaches to the River Mersey between the Rock Lighthouse and the furthest point seawards to which such sea channels or approaches respectively are for the time being buoyed on both sides.

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