So much of the third part of the said Act as relates to rights to wages and remedies for the recovery thereof, to the Shipping and discharge of Seamen in Foreign parts, to leaving Seamen abroad, and to the relief of Seamen in distress in Foreign ports, to the provisions, health, and accommodation of Seamen, to the power of Seamen to make complaints, to the protection of Seamen from imposition, to discipline, to Naval Courts on the high seas and abroad, and to crimes committed abroad, shall, so far as the same is applicable, be applied to all British Ships registered at, trading with, or being at any place within the Jurisdiction of the said Colony of New Zealand, and to the Owners, Masters, and Crews of the said ships.

The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, Adoption Act.”