Legal glossary
“shipping master”
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
(46) "shipping master" means the shipping master referred to in section 11; but in relation to any seaman for the purposes of sections 178 to 183 ((inclusive) means a shipping master appointed,―
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