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That saves life or is suited to save life esp from drowning as the life saving service a life saving station...
Boats
Boats. By s. 94 of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907, local authorities may license pleasure boats; see also (English) Public Health Act, 1936, s. 267. See Chitty's Statutes; and FISHING BOATS.As to the provision of boats on ships, with a view to the prevention of accidents and the saving of life at sea, see Order of the (English) Board of Trade, Merchant Shipping (Life-saving Appliances) Rules, May 8, 1914.-S. R. and O. 1914, No. 1006, and (English) Merchant Shipping (Safety and Local Line Conventions) Act, 1932 (22 Geo. 5, c. 9)....
Savings banks
Savings banks, institutions for the safe custody and increase of the small savings of the poor. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Savings Banks.' They are: (1) Trustee; (2) Post Office; (3) Military; (4) Statutory; (5) Uncontrolled.(1) Trustee Savings Banks are regulated by a long series of Acts (the Trustee Savings Banks Acts, 1861 to 1934), which provide that they must not be described in a manner which implies that the Government is responsible to depositors, that the money received must be paid to the Bank of England or Ireland and carried to an account kept in the names of the National Debt Commissioners, and that annual accounts must be sent to the Commissioners. An 'Inspection Committee,' estab-lished under the Savings Bank Act, 1891, has extensive powers of supervision for the purpose of detecting any breaches of the Acts or rules regulating a bank. Deposits by any depositor in more than one Trustee Savings Bank is prohibited, and the Treasury have power to limit the amount from one...
Labor saving
Saving labor adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor as labor saving machinery labor saving appliances4 labor saving devices like washing machines...
Save as otherwise provided by or under the Act
Save as otherwise provided by or under the Act, the expression 'save as otherwise provided by or under the Act' in s. 44(3) of Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 should be construed in a harmonious manner so that sub-clause (b) is not reduced to a nullity. The expression 'save as otherwise provided by or under the Act' would in the context mean, 'save as otherwise expressly barred by or under the Act'. If there is a provision which expressly debars the exercise of the power under sub-clause (b) in any case then only the State Transport Authority will not be able to exercise the powers and discharge the functions given in sub-clause (b). Otherwise there would be no such bar, State of Rajasthan v. Noor Mohammad, AIR 1973 SC 2729 (2732): (1972) 2 SCC 454: (1973) 1 SCR 841. [Motor Vehicles Act, 1939, s. 44(3)(b)]...
Catamaran
A kind of raft or float consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together and moved by paddles or sail used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America and at life saving stations...
Coston lights
Signals made by burning lights of different colors and used by vessels at sea and in the life saving service named after their inventor...
Life preserver
An apparatus made in very various forms and of various materials for saving one from drowning by buoying up the body while in the water...
Equipment
Equipment, 'equipment', in relation to a ship, includes boats, tackle, pumps, apparel, furniture, life saving appliances of every description, spars, masts, rigging and sails, fog signals, lights, shapes and signals of distress, medicines and medical and surgical stores and appliances, charts, radio installations, appliances for preventing, detecting or extinguishing fires, buckets, compasses, axes, lanterns, loading and discharging gears and appliances of all kinds and all other stores or articles belonging to or to be used in connection with or necessary for the navigation and safety of the ship. [Merchant Shipping Act, 1958, (44 of 1958), s. 3(11)]The articles or implements used for a specific pur-pose or activity, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Foreshore
Foreshore. 'The shore and bed of the sea and of every channel, creek, bay, estuary, and of every navigable river of the United Kingdom as far up the same as the tide flows to the line between the high water mark of ordinary tides and low water mark' belong to the Crown and its grantees, and the management is transferred from the Commissioners of Woods to the Board of Trade. See s. 7 of the Crown Lands Act, 1866 (29 & 30 Vict. c. 32), subject as in that Act mentioned; see also (English) Ministry of Transport Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 50). And see BATHING (SEA). Consult Coulson and Forbes on the Law of Waters.For the powers of local authorities to make bye-laws for public bathing, bathing huts and life-saving appliances, see (English) Public Health Act, 1936, ss. 231-234.There can be no custom giving a right of shooting wildfowl on the foreshore or bed of a tidal navigable river, Fitzhardinge (Lord) v. Purcell, (1908) 2 Ch 139....
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