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1868. 7. Shipping Masters and Shipping Offices;

8. Inspection of Steamboats and Boards of Steamboat inspection;

9. Enquiries into causes of Shipwrecks;

10. Establishment, regulation and maintenance of Marine and Seamen Hospitals and care of distressed seamen, and generally such matters as refer to the Marine and navigation of Canada.

[Assented to 22nd May, 1868.]

the following rules of navigation and regulations for preventing collisions between vessels, being those in use in the United Kingdom and other countries, were adopted in the late Province of Canada in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and have since continued and do still continue in force there under the Act of the Parliament of the said late Province hereinafter mentioned; and whereas it is expedient and highly desirable that the same rules and regulations should be extended to and prevail throughout all the waters of the Dominion of Canada, and that for that purpose the said Act should be repealed and re-enacted: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. This Act shall come into force on the first day of September next after its passing; and on and after the said day, the Act of the Legislature of the late Province of Canada, passed in the Session thereof held in the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth years of Her Majesty's Reign, chapter thirteen, intituled: An Act to amend the law respecting the Navigation of Canadian Waters, and the Act of the Legislature of the Province of New Brunswick, passed in the session held in the twenty-first year of Her Majesty's Reign, chapter thirteen, intituled: An Act to compel vessels navigating the Bay of Fundy to carry Lights, shall be repealed, except only as regards offences committed or liabilities incurred under either of the said Acts before the said day, with respect to which, and to all proceedings relating to which, the said Act shall remain in force; and every enactment or provision in any other Act or law in force in any part of Canada before the coming into force of this Act, inconsistent with this Act, or making any provision for any matter provided for by this Act other than such as is hereby made shall also be repealed on and after the said day.