HC Deb 23 July 1958 vol 592 cc604-5

Lords Amendment agreed to: After Amendment last inserted, insert new Clause "K":

  1. (1) Her Majesty may by Order in Council direct that the provisions of this Act, and (so far as they do not so extend apart from the Order) the existing limitation enactments, shall extend, with such exceptions, adaptations and modifications as may be specified in the Order, to—
    1. (a) the Isle of Man;
    2. (b) any of the Channel Islands;
    3. (c) any colony, or any country or place outside Her Majesty's dominions in which for the time being Her Majesty has jurisdiction, or any territory consisting partly of one or more colonies and partly of one or more such countries or places.
  2. (2) In this section "the existing limitation enactments" means Part VIII of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, section two of the Merchant Shipping (Liability of Shipowners and 605 Others) Act, 1900, and any incidental or supplementary provisions of any enactment applying the said Part or section.