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Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997

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1(1)Section 94 of the 1995 Act (meaning of “dangerously unsafe ship”) is amended as follows.U.K.

(2)In subsection (1), after “ship”, where first occurring, there is inserted “ in port ”.

(3)After subsection (1) there is inserted—

(1A)For the purposes of those sections a ship at sea is “dangerously unsafe” if, having regard to the nature of the service for which it is being used or is intended, the ship is, by reason of the matters mentioned in subsection (2) below, either—

(a)unfit to remain at sea without serious danger to human life, or

(b)unfit to go on a voyage without serious danger to human life.

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