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" proportion of at least sixty.five shillings for every thousand miles
" of the length of the voyage ; and
" (c) they have been furnished with a duly signed contract
" ticket in the form prescribed by the Board of Trade for cabin
" passengers."
Section 16.—A ship shall not carry passengers, whether cabin or
steerage passengers, on more than one deck below the water line.
Section 17.—Gives the Board of Trade power to prescribe regulations,
scales, conditions, and forms in substitution for those contained in
the Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Schedules of
the 1894 Act, which relate to
(a) the number of persons carried on emigrant ships ;
(b) the accommodation for steerage passengers on emigrant ships
(c) the provisions and water to be issued to steerage passengers
on emigrant ships ;
(d) the carriage of horses and cattle on emigrant ships, and
(e) the forms to be used under Part III. of that Act.
Section 18.—The master of every emigrant ship shall, on request
produce to any steerage passenger a copy of the scale of provisions to
which that person is entitled, and shall post up copies of the scale in at
least two conspicuous places between the decks on which steerage
passengers may be carried.
The master shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not
exceeding forty shillings for every day during any part of which by his
act or default copies of the extracts are not posted up, and shall, if he
fails to produce a copy of the scale as required by this section to a
steerage passenger, for each offence be liable on summary conviction to a
fine not exceeding forty shillings.
Section 25.—The master of every ship for which an agreement with
the crew is required under the Merchant Shipping Acts shall, if the
agreement is made after the first day of June, nineteen hundred and
seven, furnish provisions to every member of the crew (who does not
furnish his own provisions) in accordance with the scale set out in the
First Schedule of this Act.
If the master of a ship fails to furnish provisions in accordance with
this section, and the court before which the case is tried consider that
the failure was due to the neglect or default of the master, the master
shall be liable on summary conviction, in addition to paying compensation,
to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds,
This section shall not apply to lascars or natives of India, or others
not accustomed to a European dietary.