MERCHANT SHIPPING AMENDMENT ACT

NO. 24 OF 1974

[ASSENTED TO 1 MARCH, 1974][DATE OF 
COMMENCEMENT: 13 MARCH, 1974]

(Afrikaans text signed by the State President)

ACT

To amend the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1951, 
relating to definitions; the class of ships on which medicines are 
to be provided and kept; the misuse of signals of distress; the 
powers of a court of marine enquiry and of a maritime court to 
prohibit the employment of a master or a ship’s officer in 
certain capacities; and the power of the Minister to make 
regulations; and to provide for incidental matters.

1.   Amends section 2 (1) of the Merchant Shipping Act, No. 57 
of 1951, as follows:— paragraph (a) inserts the definition of 
“principal officer”; and paragraph (b) substitutes in the 
definition of “proper officer” paragraph (a) and the words 
preceding that paragraph.

2.   Substitutes section 167 of the Merchant Shipping Act, No. 
57 of 1951.

3.   Amends section 232 of the Merchant Shipping Act, No. 57 
of 1951, by substituting subsection (1).

4.   Amends section 269 of the Merchant Shipping Act, No. 57 
of 1951, by substituting subsection (1).

5.   Amends section 273(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act, No. 
57 of 1951, by substituting paragraph (b).

6.   Amends section 356 (1) of the Merchant Shipping Act, No. 
57 of 1951, as follows:—paragraph (a) deletes the word “and” 
at the end of paragraph (xxxviii); and paragraph (b) substitutes 
for paragraph (xxxix) paragraphs (xxxix), (xl), (xli) and (xlii).

7.   Short title.—This Act shall be called the Merchant Shipping 
Amendment Act, 1974.