108 Returns of births and deaths in ships, etc
Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (1995 c 21) | Legislation

108  Returns of births and deaths in ships, etc

(1)     The Secretary of State may make regulations under the following provisions of this section in relation to births and deaths in the circumstances specified in those provisions.

(2)     Regulations under this section may require the master of any United Kingdom ship to make a return to a superintendent or proper officer of—

(a)     the birth or death of any person occurring in the ship; and

(b)     the death of any person employed in the ship, wherever occurring outside the United Kingdom;

and to notify any such death to such person (if any) as the deceased may have named to him as his next of kin.

(3)     Regulations under this section may require the master of any ship not registered in the United Kingdom which calls at a port in the United Kingdom in the course of or at the end of a voyage to make a return to a superintendent of any birth or death of a British citizen, a [British overseas territories citizen] or a British Overseas citizen which has occurred

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