An Act to empower the Governors of the several Australian Colonies to regulate the Number of Passengers to be carried in Vessels plying between Ports in those Colonies.
WHEREAS by the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Sections of the Passengers Act, 1855, certain Rules are prescribed for determining the Number of Passengers to be carried in Passenger Ships, and the Decks on which Passengers may be carried: And whereas it is expedient to empower the Governor of any of Her Majesty's Colonies in Australasia to substitute, if he shall think fit, other Rules on these Points for Vessels carrying Passengers from any such Possession to any other of Her Majesty's Possessions...