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• Shipping 
• Citation
  • 1 Short title
• Interpretation
  • 2 Definitions
• Statement of Purpose
  • 3 Objects and construction
• Application of Act
  • 4 Government ships
  • 5 Exempt ships
  • 6 Minister to give directions
  • 7 Trading in Barbadian waters
• PART I The Ship
  • Registration of Ships
  • Certificate of Registry
  • Transfers and Transmissions
  • Mortgages
  • Name of Ship
  • Registration of Alteration and Registration Anew
  • Incapacitated Persons
  • Trusts and other Equities
  • Managing Owner
  • Evidence, Inspection, etc.
  • Forms
  • Forgery and False Declarations
  • Measurement of Ship and Tonnage
• PART II The Crew
  • Certification and Manning
  • Apprenticeship to the Sea Service
  • Engagement of Seamen
  • Employment of Young Persons
  • Certification of Seamen
  • Discharge of Seamen
  • Payment of Wages
  • Advance and Allotment of Wages
  • Rights of Seaman in respect of Wages
  • Vacation Leave and Pubic Holidays
  • Mode of Recovering Wages
  • Power of Court to Rescind Contracts
  • Property of Deceased Seaman
  • Provisions, Health and Accommodation
  • Facilities for Making Complaints
  • Protection of Seamen from Imposition
  • Discipline
  • Official Log-Book
  • Returns and Delivery of Documents
  • Relief and Repatriation
• PART III Passenger Ships
  • 193 Regulations of passenger ships
  • 194 Offences re passenger ships
  • 195 Ticket for passage
• PART IV Safety
  • Definitions
  • Safety and Load Line Conventions
  • Inspection for Safety
  • Safety Regulations
  • Issue of Certificates
  • Proceeding to Sea
  • General Safety Precautions and Responsibilities
  • Prevention of Collisions
  • Load Line Convention Ships not Registered in Barbados
  • Carriage of Grain
  • Dangerous Goods
  • Unseaworthy Ships
  • Miscellaneous
• PART V Wrecks, Salvage and Investigations
  • Receivers of Wreck
  • Dealing with Wreck
  • Removal of Wreck
  • Salvage
  • Shipping Casualties, Inquiries and Investigations
• PART VA Regulation of Diving Operations and Small Commercial Vessel Operations
  • 300A Recreational diving
  • 300B Coastal craft
  • 300C Minister to make order
  • 300D Damage or removal of buoys
  • 300E Damage or removal of navigational aids
• PART VI Limitation and Division of Liability
  • Limitation of Liability
  • Division of Liability
• PART VII Conventions and Legal Proceedings
  • Conventions
  • Offences
  • Jurisdiction
  • Damage Occasioned by Foreign Ships
  • Reciprocal Jurisdiction
  • Jurisdiction over Foreign Ship
  • Inquiry into Causes of Death
  • Depositions in Legal Proceedings
  • Detention of Ship and Distress on Ship
  • Evidence, Service of Documents and Declarations
  • Protection of Officers
  • Limitation of Actions in Civil Proceedings
• PART VIII Maritime Liens
  • 338 Sources of maritime liens
  • 339 Priority of maritime liens in general
  • 340 Order of priority of maritime
  • 341 Processory liens
  • 342 Claims to proceeds of sale of ship
• PART IX Supplemental
  • 343 Exemption of Government ships
  • 344 Powers of inspectors
  • 345 Suspension of certificate of registry
  • 346 Forms
  • 347 Exemptions for limited period
  • 348 Production to customs
  • 349 General regulations
  • 350 Transitional