Legal glossary
“pilgrim ship”
Defined in 1 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 · s. 3
(28) "pilgrim ship" means a special trade passenger ship which makes a voyage to or from the Hedjaz, or, as the case may be, to or from any other place of pilgrimage declared as such by the Central Government in pursuance of clause (27), during the season of the pilgrimage and which carries pilgrims in a proportion of not less than one pilgrim for every one hundred tons of the gross tonnage of the ship;]
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