Chapter XXIV: Part II: Regulation of Pleasure-Boats

7. _Registration of boats._--In addition to the rights and
duties of the Conservators relating to registration and tolls
already created by the Thames Navigation Act, 1870, the Thames
Conservancy Act, 1878, and the Thames Act, 1883, or by any other
of the Acts in the First Schedule to this Act mentioned, it
shall be lawful for the Conservators to direct by by-law that
all boats or vessels, with the exception of any such class of
boats or vessels as may, together with the reasons of such
exception, be specified in any such by-law for pleasure
navigation, shall be registered, together with the true names
and addresses of the owners thereof respectively, in a General
Register to be kept at their chief office in a form by them to
be prescribed, and as to all vessels propelled by steam power,
and all house-boats, and all rowing or sailing boats plying for
hire, and any such other particular class of boats or vessels as
by them from time to time by by-law, may be prescribed to issue
licences to ply upon any part of the upper navigation, or upon a
limited part thereof only, according to regulations in each case
by them to be made by by-law in manner hereinafter provided.

8. _Navigating without registration to be an offence._--From and
after the dates by any such by-law to be fixed respectively, it
shall be an offence under this Act to use any boat or vessel of
the class mentioned in the same by-law, on any part of the river
to which such by-law applies, unless such boat or vessel shall
have been previously registered or licensed in manner therein
provided.

9. _Lists to be kept of private boats and boats for hire._--In
the General Register in the seventh section of this Act
mentioned, separate lists shall be kept of boats and vessels
used for pleasure navigation by private owners, and of boats and
vessels let for hire. The former class of boats or vessels shall
be distinguished, according to regulations to be made from time
to time by the Conservators, by a registered number, crest,
badge, or mark, and the latter class by a registered number; and
the provisions of section eleven and section thirteen of the
Thames Act, 1883, as to displaying or concealing the same or
number of any steam-launch shall be deemed in all cases to apply
to the said registered numbers, crests, badge, and marks
respectively, with such modifications as the Conservators may by
such regulations from time to time direct.

10. _Renewal of yearly registration._--It shall be lawful for
the Conservators by by-law to enact as to any or all of the
classes of boats or vessels by them from time to time required
to be licensed or registered as aforesaid, that such licence or
registration shall be renewed at any interval not being less
than one year.

11. _Fee for registration._--It shall be lawful for the
Conservators to charge, in respect of boats or vessels
registered under this Act, sums not exceeding the sums
following; that is to say, for each registration of a
pleasure-boat not being a house-boat, a sum not exceeding two
shillings and sixpence, and for each registration of a
house-boat a sum not exceeding five pounds; and if such
house-boat shall be more than thirty feet in length, a further
sum not exceeding twenty shillings in respect of every complete
five feet and the fraction of an incomplete five feet by which
such house boat shall exceed thirty feet in length.

Provided always that nothing in this Act shall require a boat or
vessel not being a house-boat to be registered oftener than once
in three years.

12. _Present registration or licence not to be
affected._--Nothing in this Act shall require any vessel which
may under any Act be required to be registered or licensed by
the master, wardens, and commonalty of watermen and lightermen
of the River Thames to be registered or licensed under this Act.

13. _First registration._--For the purposes of the last
preceding section a fresh registration or licence of any boat or
vessel in a class other than that in which the same was first
registered or licensed shall be deemed a first registration or
licence.

14. _Application of ss. 7, 8, 9, and 14 of The Thames Act, 1883,
to all registered boats and vessels._--The provisions of
sections seven, eight, nine, and fourteen of The Thames Act,
1883, as to registered owners of steam-launches, shall apply to
the registered owners of all boats or vessels for the time being
registered pursuant to the provisions of this Act, and of the
by-laws in that behalf from time to time in force, and the same
section nine and section fourteen shall be read as if the words
'boat or vessel' therein were substituted for the word
'steam-launch,' and as if the words 'this Act' therein referred
to the present Act.

15. _Every boat or vessel to be deemed to be in charge of one
person._--Every boat or vessel used for pleasure navigation upon
any part of the River Thames within the limits aforesaid shall
be deemed to be in charge of one person, who shall be in every
case a registered owner, or the person duly appointed or
permitted by him to be in charge, or the person hiring such boat
or vessel, and, in the absence of any such person, then any
person having control or being in command of such boat or
vessel.

16. _Person in charge to be responsible for order_.--Every
person who for the time being is in charge of any boat or vessel
shall be responsible for the preservation of order and decency,
and for the observance of the provisions of this Act; and upon
proof that an offence under this Act has been committed by any
person on board such boat or vessel, and that the person in
charge has refused to give the name and address of the
offender, then the person in charge shall be deemed to have
committed an offence under this Act.