(Amendment). A BILL [AS AMENDED BY STANDING COMMITTEE D] ΤΟ Amend the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1921, A.D. 1923. with respect to the expenses of the medical attendance of masters and seamen suffering from Venereal Disease. E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, 5 as follows: 1. Subsection (1) of section thirty-four of the Amendment Merchant Shipping Act, 1906 (which relates to the of s. 34 (1) expenses of medical attendance of masters and seamen of 6 Edw. 7. suffering from injuries and illnesses), shall apply to any 10 case where the illness from which the master or seaman is suffering is venereal disease, and accordingly that subsection shall have effect as if the words "venereal disease or were omitted therefrom. c. 48. 2. (1) This Act may be cited as the Merchant Short title, 15 Shipping Acts (Amendment) Act, 1923, and shall be construction construed as one with the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 and comto 1921, and those Acts and this Act may be cited together as the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1923. (2) This Act shall come into operation on the first 20 day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-four. mencement. COMMITTEE D To amend the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1921, with respect to the expenses of the medical attendance of masters and seamen suffering from Venereal Disease. Presented by Sir John Collie, supported by Sir William Raeburn, Sir Alfred Mond, Mr. Tillett, Major-General Sir Robert Hutchison, Mr. Shinwell, Major Entwistle, Mr. Darbishire, Mr. Sexton, Mr. Harold Morris, and Sir George Berry. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 17 July 1923. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE. To be purchased through any Bookseller or directly from 1, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff; or 120, George Street, Edinburgh. Printed by EYRE and SPOTTISWOODE, LTD., East Harding Street, E.C. 4, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty. [Bill 197] [Price 2d. Net.] Support) Bill. [H.L.] ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES. PART I. RIGHTS OF WORKING MINERALS AND RIGHTS ANCILLARY THERETO AND OF SUPPORT. Rights of working and rights ancillary to the working of Minerals. Clause. 1. Power to grant right to work minerals which would otherwise be unworkable. 2. 3. 4. Power to grant right to work minerals where adjustment of boundaries between two mines agreed. Power to grant ancillary rights for facilitating the working of minerals. Limitation on power of granting rights. 5. Applications for rights. 6. References to Railway and Canal Commission. 7. Provisions where several applications in respect of the same rights. Restrictions on working Minerals required for Support. 8. Restrictions on working minerals required for support. 9. 10. 11. 12. General. Provisions for compensation. Provisions as to the Railway and Canal Commission. Provisions as to tenants for life, &c. 13. Saving of rights under the Railways Clauses Act, &c. Interpretation. 14. 15. PART II. MINERALS UNDER RAILWAYS, &c. Amendment of 8 & 9 Vict. c. 20. ss. 78 to 85 as incorporated in future Acts. 16. Application to existing railways, &c. Facilities and Support). PART III. GENERAL. Clause. 17. Short title, commencement, and extent. SCHEDULES. Facilities and Support). [H.L.] A BILL INTITULED An Act to make provisions for facilitating the A.D. 1923. working of minerals and for imposing restrictions on the working of minerals required for the support of railways, buildings, and works. E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, 5 as follows:- 10 15 20 PART I. RIGHTS OF WORKING MINERALS AND RIGHTS ANCILLARY Rights of working and rights ancillary to the working of Minerals. 1.-(1) Where there is danger of minerals being Power to left permanently unworked- grant right to work unworkable. (a) by reason of the minerals being comprised in or minerals |