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his duty, or is lawfully under confinement for misconduct either on board or
on shore); or
"(2) If it is shown that any of those provisions are or have during the
voyage been bad in quality and unfit for use, the seaman shall receive,
by way of compensation for that reduction, or bad quality, according to the
time of its continuance, the following sums, to be paid to him in addition to,
and to be recoverable as, wages ; that is to say—
"(a) If his allowance is reduced by not more than one-third of the
quantity specified in the agreement, a sum not exceeding
fourpence a day ;
"(b) If his allowance is reduced by more than one-third of that
quantity, eightpence a day ;
"(c) In respect of bad quality aforesaid, a sum not exceeding one
shilling a day ;
but if it is shown to the satisfaction of the Court before whom the case is
tried that any provisions, the allowance of which has been reduced, could not
be procured or supplied in proper quantities, and that proper and equivalent
substitutes were supplied in lieu thereof, the Court shall take those
circumstances into consideration, and shall modify or refuse compensation as
the justice of the case requires.
"Section 206.— (1) In the case of ships trading or going from any port of
the United Kingdom through the Suez Canal, or round the Cape of Good
Hope, or Cape Horn, the barrels of beef and pork, the preserved meat and
vegetables in tins and the casks of flour or biscuits, intended for the use of
the crew of any such ship, shall be inspected by such officer and in such
manner as rules under this section direct, but before shipment whenever
practicable, and, if in the opinion of the inspecting officer they are fit for that
use, that officer shall certify the same accordingly in manner directed by such
rules.
"(2) The inspecting officer may at any time proceed on board any such ship
to ascertain whether the stores and water provided have been duly inspected,
or, if not, whether they are of a quality fit for the use of the crew of the
ship, and if he finds the same not to have been inspected and to be deficient
in quantity, the ship shall be detained until the defects are remedied to his
satisfaction.
"(3) No fee for an inspection under this section shall be levied on the ship.
"(4) The Board of Trade may make rules for carrying into effect this
section, but all such rules shall be laid before Parliament within three weeks
after they are made, if Parliament be then sitting, and if Parliament be not
then sitting, within three weeks after the beginning of the then next meeting
of Parliament, and shall not come into operation until they have lain for forty
days before both Houses of Parliament during the session of Parliament.
Inspection of
provisions
and water for
crew of
certain ships.