The Merchant Shipping Act, 1948 (Commencement No. 1) Order, 1952
Whereas at a session of the International Labour Conference held at Seattle in the year nineteen hundred and forty-six a convention dealing with the certification of able seamen was adopted: And Whereas the Minister of Transport (hereinafter referred to as "the Minister") is satisfied that it is the wish of the National Maritime Board, being an organisation which appears to him to be representative both of owners of British ships and of seamen employed therein, that section 5 (which deals wit...