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Home Dictionary Name: fishing vessel Page 1 of about 14 results (0.004 seconds)Fishing vessel
Fishing vessel, means a ship fitted with mechanical means of propulsion which is exclusively engaged in sea fishing for profit. [Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 (44 of 1958), s. 3(12)]...
National insurance
National insurance. The (English) National Insur-ance Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 55), introduced by Mr. Lloyd George, established a wide system of compulsory state insurance covering both ill-health and unemployment, which is based upon premiums contributed in part by the employer, in part by the employee, and in part by the State. The Act consisted of three parts, the first dealing with National Health Insurance, the second with Unemployment Insurance, and the third contained miscellaneous provisions. This Act remained the basis of National Health Insurance, although the subject of very extensive amendment, until the National Health Insurance Act, 1924, consolidated the law. The law has been consolidated again by the (English) National Health Insurance Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 32), amends and repeals the whole of the Acts passed in 1920, 1922, 1924 and 1928. The arrangement is as follows:-Part I. Insured Persons and Contributions.Part II. Benefits.Part III. Approved Soc...
Dogger
A two masted fishing vessel used by the Dutch...
VerbarGarookuh
A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf...
Lay system
Lay system, means a system in which a fishing vessel's catch is sold at auction, and then the proceeds are provided first to the provider of supplies and then to the master and crew. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 896...
Monger
Monger [fr. mangian, Sax., to trade], a dealer or seller. It is seldom or never used alone, or otherwise than after the name of any commodity, to express a seller of such commodity. Also, a little fishing vessel, 13 Eliz. c. 11....
Ship
Ship, the carriage of goods by Sea Act, 1925 (26 of 1925). [XXVI of 1925, Sch. Art. 1, Cl. (d)]Ship, means any vessel used for the carriage of goods by sea.A type of vessel used or intended to be used in navigation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1382.In the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), by s. 742, 'includes every description of vessel used in navigation not propelled by oars.' [This definition has been adopted by the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 34), s. 48(1)]'Foreign-going ship,' by the same s., 'includes every ship employed in trading, or going between some place or places in the United Kingdom, and some place or places situate beyond the following limits: that is to say, the coasts of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, and the continent of Europe, between the river Elbe and Brest inclusive'; and'Home-trade ship' includes 'every ship employed in trading or going' within the above limits; and'Home-trade pass...
Animal
Animal, 'Animal' means any living creature other than a human being. [Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 (59 of 1960), s. 2(a)]Animal includes mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians fish, other chordates and invertebrates and also includes their young and eggs. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972), s. 2(a)]In common parlance animal is understood as a quadruped creature but fish is also an animal but of a different kind. Prawn is included in the definition of fish as given in the Maritime Zones of India (Regulation of Fishing by Foreign Vessels) Act and has all the essential attributes of an animal viz. life, sensation and voluntary motion. It is therefore not possible to accept the contention that prawn is not a livestock, I.T.C. v. Person in charge, Agricultural Market Committee, (2004) 2 SCC 794 (799): AIR 2004 SC 1796. [Maritime Zones of India (Regulations of Fishing by Foreign Vessels) Act, 1981, ss. 2(b), 3 & 12]The word 'animal' denotes any living creature, other ...
Foreign-going vessel or aircraft
Foreign-going vessel or aircraft, means any vessel or aircraft for the time being engaged in the carriage of goods or passengers between any port or airport in India and any port or airport outside India, whether touching any intermediate port or airport in India or not, and includes-(i) any naval vessel of a foreign Government taking part in any naval exercises;(ii) any vessel engaged in fishing or any other operations outside the territorial waters of India;(iii) any vessel or aircraft proceeding to a place out-side India for any purpose whatsoever. [Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), s. 2 (21)]...
Thames
Thames. See (English) Thames Conservancy Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii.); defined in s. 3 as meaning and including:-So much of the rivers Thames and Isis respectively as are between the town of Cricklade and an imaginary straight line drawn from the entrance to Gantlet creek in the county of Kent to the City stone opposite to Canve Island in the county of Essex and so much of the river Kennet as is between the Common landing-place at Reading in the county of Berks and the river Thames and so much of the river Lee and Bow creek respectively as are below the south boundary stones in the Lee Conservancy Act, 1868, mentioned and all locks, cuts, and works within the said portions of rivers and creeks:Provided that no dock, lock, canal, or cut, existing at the passing of this Act and constructed under the authority of Parliament and belonging to any body corporate established under such authority, and no bridge over the river Thames or the river Kennet belonging to or vested in any c...
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