Merchant Shipping (Convention) Act 1914
WHEREAS a convention (in this Act referred to as the Convention), a translation of which is for the purpose of convenience of reference set out in the First Schedule to this Act, was signed in London on January the twentieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, for determining by a common agreement certain uniform rules with respect to the safety of life at sea, and it is desirable that such amendments should be made in the law relating to merchant shipping as will enable effect to be given to tha...