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    <title>Merchant Shipping Act, 1958</title>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Sterling Book House</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2003</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>xxxvi, 227p.</extent>
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  <abstract>Establishes a National Shipping Board and a Shipping Development Fund, provides for registration of Indian ships, certification of officers, apprenticeships, employment offices, employment of young persons, rights relating to wages, relief of distressed seamen, safety considerations, and other related matters. Repeals the Merchant Shipping Laws (Extension To the Acceding States and Amendment) Act, 1949 (No. 18 of 1949).</abstract>
  <subject>
    <topic>General Administration</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Registration of Indian ships</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Nuclear ships</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc">343.0965 SBH</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9798175980388</identifier>
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