Merchant Shipping (Fishing Boats) Act 1883
WHEREAS the enactments of the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1854 to 1880, with respect to fishing vessels, require amendment, and it is desirable to make further provision for the encouragement and regulation of the fishing trade: And whereas it is expedient to amend the Acts relating to merchant shipping in certain particulars: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliame...