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The Docks, Shipbuilding etc. (Metrication) Regulations 1983

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1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as The Docks, Shipbuilding etc. (Metrication) Regulations 1983 and shall come into operation on the 1st June 1983.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, “the principal instruments” means the Regulations and Orders amended by these Regulations, that is to say:—

  • The Docks Regulations 1925;

  • The Docks Regulations 1934;

  • The Shipbuilding and Ship-repairing Regulations 1960;

  • The Shipbuilding (Lifting Appliances etc. Forms) Order 1961(1);

  • The Docks Certificates (No. 2) Order 1964.

Amendments to the principal instruments to substitute metric measurements for imperial measurements

2.  The provisions of the principal instruments specified in the Schedule to these Regulations in Column 1 shall be amended by substituting for the measurements or expressions set out opposite thereto in column 3 the measurements or expressions set out in the corresponding entry in column 4.

Application to existing premises and plant

3.  Where any premises or plant, in existence or under construction immediately before the coming into operation of these Regulations complied with the requirements of the principal Regulations as then in force, then those premises or that plant shall be deemed to comply with the requirements of the principal Regulations as amended by these Regulations.

Signed by order of the Secretary of State.

John Selwyn Gummer

Joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department of Employment

26th April 1983

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