Merchant Shipping Act 1964

1964 CHAPTER 47

An Act to enable effect to be given to an International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea signed in London on 17th June 1960; to amend section 271 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894; and for purposes connected therewith.

[10th June 1964]

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Functions of Minister of Transport under this Act now exercisable by Secretary of State by virtue of S.I. 1965/145, art. 2, Sch. 1, 1970/1537, art. 2 and S.I. 1983/1127, art. 2(4)

C2 Act amended by Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1977 (c. 24), ss. 1(3)(c), 4(1)

C3 Act extended by S.I. 1981/584, regs. 2–5

C4 Act modified by Merchant Shipping Act 1988 (c. 12, SIF 111), s. 47(2)(b), (with s. 58(4), Sch. 8 para. 1) and by S.I. 1989/1991, art. 10

C5 Act excluded by S.I. 1989/1991, arts. 11–14

Application of Act of 1949 to new Convention U.K.

F1 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.K.

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 1 repealed (1.6.1995) by S.I. 1995/1210, reg. 1(4)(e)(5)

New requirements for cargo ships U.K.

F2 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.K.

Textual Amendments

F2 S. 2 repealed (1.5.1994) by 1993 c. 22, s. 84, Sch. 3 Pt.II; S.I. 1993/3137, art. 3(2) Sch.2

F3 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.K.

Textual Amendments

F3 S. 3 repealed (1.6.1995) by S.I. 1995/1210, reg. 1(4)(e)(5)

F4 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.K.

Textual Amendments

F4 S. 4 repealed (1.6.1995) by S.I. 1995/1210, reg. 1(4)(e)(5)

F5 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.K.

Textual Amendments

F5 S. 5 repealed (1.6.1995) by S.I. 1995/1210, reg. 1(4)(e)(5)

6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F6 U.K.

Textual Amendments

F6 S. 6 repealed by S.I. 1981/568, reg. 5, Sch. 2

F7 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.K.

Textual Amendments

F7 S. 7 repealed (1.6.1995) by S.I. 1995/1210, reg. 1(4)(e)(5)

Damage control and life-saving appliances U.K.

F8 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.K.

Textual Amendments

F8 S. 8 repealed (1.5.1994) by 1993 c. 22, s. 84, Sch. 5 Pt.II; S.I. 1993/3137, art. 3(2), Sch.2

Subsection (1) of section 427 of the principal Act (which empowers the Minister of Transport to make rules for life-saving appliances) shall be amended as follows:—

(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F9

(b) after paragraph (m) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—

“(mm) the provision in ships of plans or other information relating to the means of preventing, detecting, controlling and extinguishing outbreaks of fire”;

(c) in paragraph (q) (examination of appliances and equipment required by the rules to be carried) after the word “examination” there shall be inserted the words “and maintenance”.

Textual Amendments

F9 S. 9(a) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), Sch. Pt. X

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C6 The text of s. 9(b)(c) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

Radio installations and certificates U.K.

F10 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.K.

Textual Amendments

F10 S. 10 repealed (1.5.1994) by 1993 c. 22, s. 84 Sch. 5 Pt.II; S.I. 1993/3137, art. 3(2), Sch.2

11 Radio installations. U.K.

For subsection (4) of section 3 of the Act of 1949 (which specifies the radio installations to be require under the radio rules) there shall be substituted the following subsection:—

“(4) The radio installation required under the said rules to be provided—

(a) for a passenger steamer of whatever tonnage, or for any ship of sixteen hundred tons gross tonnage or upwards which is neither a passenger steamer nor a fishing vessel, shall be a radiotelegraph installation ; and

(b) for any other ship shall be either a radiotelephone installation or a radiotelegraph installation, at the option of the owner.”

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C7 The text of s. 11 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

F11 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.K.

Textual Amendments

F11 S. 12 repealed (1.6.1995) by S.I. 1995/1210, reg. 1(4)(e)(5)

Miscellaneous U.K.

F12 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.K.

Textual Amendments

F12 S. 13 repealed (1.6.1995) by S.I. 1995/1210, reg. 1(4)(e)(5)

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Textual Amendments

F13 S. 14 repealed by Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967 (c. 27), s. 33, Sch. 2

F14 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.K.

Textual Amendments

F14 S. 15 repealed (1.5.1994) by 1993 c. 22, s. 84, Sch. 5 Pt.II; S.I. 1993/3137, art. 3(2) Sch.2

16 Extension of duty to report dangers to navigation. U.K.

The matters of which information is to be sent by the master of a ship in accordance with rules under section 24 of the M1 Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act 1932 shall include—

(a) air temperatures below freezing point associated with gale force winds causing severe ice accretion on the superstructure of ships; and

(b) winds of force 10 or above on the Beaufort Scale for which no storm warning has been received.

Marginal Citations

M1 1932 c. 9.

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Textual Amendments

F15 S. 17 repealed (1.6.1995 with effect as mentioned in reg. 1(5) of the amending S.I.) by S.I. 1995/1210, reg. 1(4)(e)(5)

Supplementary U.K.

18 Transitional provisions and repeals. U.K.

(1)–(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F16

(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F17

Textual Amendments

F16 S. 18(1)–(3) repealed by Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1977 (c. 24), ss. 1(3)(b), 4(1)

F17 S. 18(4) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), Sch. Pt. XI

19 Commencement, construction, citation and extent. U.K.

(1) This Act shall come into force on such day as Her Majesty may by Order in Council appoint.

(2) In the Act of 1949 “the Merchant Shipping Acts” shall mean the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1958 and this Act; and this Act shall be construed as one with those Acts.

(3) This Act may be cited as the Merchant Shipping Act 1964, and the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1958 and this Act may be cited together as the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1964.

(4) This Act extends to Northern Ireland.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C8 26.5.1965 appointed under s. 19(1) by S.I. 1965/317

[F18 Interpretation.] U.K.

Textual Amendments

F18 S. 20 added by S.I. 1980/539, reg. 3, Sch. 2

In this Act—

• [F20 “cargo ship construction and survey rules” means—

  (i)

  in relation to United Kingdom ships to which the 1981 Regulations apply, and other ships to which those Regulations apply while they are in the United Kingdom or the territorial waters thereof, those Regulations; and

  (ii)

  [F21 in relation to United Kingdom ships to which the 1984 Regulations apply, and other ships to which those Regulations apply while they are in the United Kingdom or the territorial waters thereof, those Regulations;]]

• [F20 “the 1981 Regulations” means the Merchant Shipping (Cargo Ship, Construction and Survey) Regulations 1981]

• [F22 “the 1984 Regulations” means the Merchant Shipping (Cargo Ship Construction and Survey) Regulations 1984.]]

Textual Amendments

F19 S. 20 added by S.I. 1980/539, reg. 3, Sch. 2

F20 Definitions substituted in s. 20 by S.I. 1981/568, Sch. 2

F21 S. 20 para. (ii) substituted by S.I. 1985/212, reg. 3, Sch. 2(a)

F22 Definition added by S.I. 1985/212, reg. 3, Sch. 2(b)