LAWS OF THE GILBERT ISLANDS
REVISED EDITION 1977

CHAPTER 57

MERCHANT SHIPPING (FEES)

ARRANGMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1. Short title
2. Fees to be taken by Marine Superintendent
3. Fees to be paid into Consolidated Fund
4. Power to amend the Schedule
Schedule

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An Ordinance to provide for the fees to be taken under the Merchant Shipping Act 1894

5 of 1913
(Cap. 75 of 1952)
12 of 1955
2 of 1969
(Cap. 86 of 1973)

Commencement: 15th July 1913

Short title

1. 'This Ordinance may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Fees) Ordinance.

Fees to be taken by Marine Superintendent 1894 c. 60

2. Whenever any act mentioned in the Schedule which shall, under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894, be done by, to or before a British Consular officer or a superintendent is in the Gilbert Islands done by, to, or before the Marine Superintendent or any public officer acting for him and on his behalf, there shall be paid in respect of that act the fees specified therefor in the Schedule.

Fees to be paid into Consolidated Fund

3. All fees payable under this Ordinance shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.

Power to amend Schedule

4. The Minister may make regulations to amend the Schedule.

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SCHEDULE

(Section 2)

	$	c.	
1. For every declaration taken or recorded under the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 with a view to the registry, transfer and transmission of ships, interest in ships, mortgages of ships …	2	00	
2. For indorsing a memorandum of change of master upon the certificate of registry, and initially his signature on agreement with crew, if required		50	
3. For recording a mortgage of a ship, or share in a ship	2	00	
4. For recording the transfer of a mortgage of a ship, or shares in a ship	2	00	
5. For recording the discharge of a mortgage of a ship, or shares in a ship	2	00	
6. For every sale of a ship, or shares in a ship	2	00	
7. For every seaman engaged		20	
8. For every alteration in agreements with seaman		20	
9. For every seaman discharged or left behind with the sanction of a port officer		20	
10. For every desertion certified		50	
11. For indorsing a ship’s agreement with respect to the death of any person on board		50	
12. For attesting the execution of a seaman’s will		50	
13. For certification of form of claim for wages, etc., of a deceased seaman		20	
14. For examination of provisions, or water, to be paid for by the party who provides to be in default, in addition to cost of survey	2	00	
15. For every salvage bond made in pursuance of section 560(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 to be paid by the master or owner of the property salved	4	00	
16. For making indorsement on ship papers as required by section 257 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 (to include the fee for inspection of ship’s papers – see No. 38)		50	
17. For noting a marine protest and furnishing 1 certified copy if required	2	00	
18. For every other copy		25	
19. For filing a request for survey and issuing order of survey	2	00	
20. For receiving report of survey, filing original in archives (if not exceeding 200 words), and furnishing if required, 1 certified copy of request, order and report of survey	2	00	
21. For extending marine protest, if not exceeding 200 words, filing original, and furnishing 1 certified copy if required	2	00	
22. For any other protest, if not exceeding 200 words, filing original, and furnishing 1 certified copy if required	2	00	
23. If the protest, or report of survey if not exceeding 200 words, for every additional 100 words, or fraction thereof		50	
24. For attesting average, bottomry, or arbitration bond, each copy	2	00	
25. For preparing a fresh agreement with the crew of a British vessel on new articles of agreement being opened at a foreign port, and for furnishing the copy which the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 requires should be made accessible to the crew	4	00	
26. Bill of health	1	00	
27. Certifying to a foreign bill of health	1	00	
28. Certificate of origin of goods and filing copy	1	00	
29. Certificate of due landing of goods exported from a British port	1	00	
30. For application addressed to local authorities for arrest or imprisonment of a seaman, if granted pursuant to the request of the master	2	00	
31. The like, for release of seaman		50	
32. For each certificate granted as to the number of the crew of a vessel, or as to any other matter required by local authorities for the clearance inwards and outwards of a vessel (See Nos. 16 and 33)		50	
33. For drawing up in form and language required by local authorities a muster-roll or detailed list giving the names etc., of each member of the crew of a vessel (to be charged in addition to No. 32)	2	00	
34. For affixing official signature, and seal if required, to a ship’s manifest	1	00	
35. For affixing official signature, and seal if required, to a ship’s manifest	1	00	
36. For attesting the execution of a bill of sale of a ship, or shares in a ship	2	00	
37. For any document required from a port officer by foreign authorities as a preliminary to the engagement of a British seaman in a foreign vessel, including official seal and signature	1	00	
38. For inspecting ship’s paper when their production is required to enable a port officer to perform any specific service on the ship’s behalf	1	00	
N.B – This fee is not to be charged in addition to fee No. 16 unless the agreement has been withdrawn from the office of the port officer in the interval			

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