57 & 58 Vict.
c. 60.

c. 37.

(2) In any legal proceeding in relation to such injuries as
aforesaid, the person giving security shall be made defendant,
and shall be stated to be the owner of the ship which has caused
the injuries, or on, in, or about which the injuries were sustained,
and the production of the order of the judge, made in relation to
the security, shall be conclusive evidence of the liability of the
defendant to the proceeding.

(3) Section six hundred and ninety-two of the Merchant
Shipping Act, 1894, shall apply to the detention of a ship under
this Act as it applies to the detention of a ship under that Act,
and the expressions "port" and "harbour" have the same mean-
ing as in that Act, and, if the owner of a ship is a corporation,
it shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to reside in the
United Kingdom if it has an office in the United Kingdom at
which service of writs can be effected.

(4) The words "person applying" in this section shall include
an employer who has paid compensation, or against whom a
claim for compensation has been made, under the Workmen's
60 & 61 Vict. Compensation Act, 1897, as amended by any subsequent enact-
ment, if he shows the judge that he probably is or will become
entitled to be indemnified under that Act, and in such case this
section shall apply as if the employer were a person claiming
damages in respect of personal injuries.

Commence-

ment and
short title.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of
January nineteen hundred and six, and may be cited as the
Shipowners' Negligence (Remedies) Act, 1905.

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CHAP. 30.

An Act to declare the law with respect to a marriage between a man and his deceased wife's sister domiciled in parts of the British Possessions where such a marriage is legal.

[4th August, 1906.]

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, as follows:

of colonial

1. For removing doubts, it is hereby declared that where a Legalization man has, whether before or after the passing of this Act, married marriages his deceased wife's sister, and at the date of the marriage each with deceased of the parties was domiciled in a part of the British Possessions wife's sister. in which at that date such a marriage was legal, the marriage if legal in other respects shall be, and shall be deemed always to have been, legal for all purposes, including the right of succession to real property and to honours and dignities, within the United Kingdom, unless either party to the marriage has subsequently, during the life of the other, but before the passing of this Act, lawfully married another:

Provided that nothing in this Act shall affect any right, interest, or estate to or in any property, dignity, or honour the title to which, whether vested or contingent, and whether in possession, reversion, or remainder, accrued before the passing of this Act, and no claim by the Crown for duties leviable on or with reference to death, and before the passing of this Act due and payable, and no payment, commutation, composition, discharge or settlement of account in respect of any duties leviable on or with reference to death before the passing of this Act duly made or given, shall be prejudicially affected hereby.

2. This Act may be cited as the Colonial Marriages (Deceased Short title. Wife's Sister) Act, 1906.

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CHAP. 40.

An Act to amend the Law with respect to Marriages between British Subjects and Foreigners.

BE it

[29th November, 1906.]

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, as follows:

British sub

abroad.

1.—(1) Any British subject who desires to be married in a Marriages of foreign country to a foreigner according to the law of that jects with country may, if it is desired for the purpose of complying with foreigners the requirement of the law of that country to obtain the certificate hereinafter mentioned, give notice of the marriage, if resident in the United Kingdom, to the registrar, and if resident abroad, to the marriage officer, and apply to the registrar or officer for a certificate that after proper notices have been given no legal impediment to the marriage has been shown to the registrar or officer to exist, and the registrar or officer shall, after the conditions set out in the Schedule to this Act have been complied with, give the certificate applied for, unless the certificate is forbidden or a caveat is in operation as provided in that Schedule, or some legal impediment to the marriage is shown to the registrar or officer to exist.

(2) If a person

(a) knowingly and wilfully makes a false oath or signs
a false notice of marriage for the purpose of a
certificate under this section; or

(b) forbids the granting of a certificate under this section
by falsely representing himself to be a person who
is authorized to forbid the certificate, knowing that
representation to be false,

that person shall be guilty of perjury, and, if the offence is
committed abroad, may be tried in any county or place in the
United Kingdom in which the offender may be, and dealt with

in the same manner in all respects as if the offence had been committed in that county or place.

(3) If any person enters a caveat on grounds which the registrar or officer or, in case of appeal, the Registrar-General declares to be frivolous, that person shall be liable to pay as a debt to the applicant for the certificate such sum as the registrar or officer or, in the case of appeal, the RegistrarGeneral considers to be proper compensation for the damage caused to the applicant by the entering of the caveat.

(4) Such fees may be charged in respect of any notice of an intended marriage, or any application for or grant of a certificate, or the entering of a caveat under this section, as may be fixed, as respects certificates to be granted by or caveats entered with registrars, by the Registrar-General, with the consent of His Majesty in Council, and, as respects certificates to be granted by or caveats entered with a marriage officer, as 54 & 55 Vict. may be fixed by Order under the Consular Salaries and Fees Act, 1891.

c. 36.

Marriage of foreigners

with British

subjects in the United Kingdom.

c. 86.

2.-(1) Where arrangements have been made to the satisfaction of His Majesty with any foreign country for the issue by the proper officers of that country, in the case of persons subject to the marriage law of that country proposing to marry British subjects in the United Kingdom, of certificates that, after proper notices have been given, no impediment according to the law of that country has been shown to exist to the marriage, His Majesty may, by Order in Council, make regulations

(a) requiring any person, subject to the marriage law of
that foreign country, who is to be married to a British
subject in the United Kingdom, to give notice of
the fact that he is subject to the marriage law of
that country to the person by or in the presence of
whom the marriage is to be solemnized; and
(b) forbidding any person to whom such a notice is given
to solemnize the marriage or to allow it to be solem-
nized until such a certificate as aforesaid is produced
to him.

(2) If any person knowingly acts in contravention of, or fails to comply with, any such regulation, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding

one year.

(3) Nothing in this section shall be taken to relate or have any reference to any marriages between two persons professing the Jewish religion solemnized according to the usages of the Jews in the presence of the secretary of a synagogue authorized

6 & 7 Will. 4, by either the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1836, or the Marriages (Ireland) Act, 1844, or by the Marriage and Regis

7 & 8 Vict.