Merchant Shipping (Registration, etc.) Act 1993

13 (1) In section 21 of the 1979 Act (regulations to secure health and safety on ships) insert the following subsection—

“(3A) The power to make regulations conferred by subsection (1)(a) above shall extend also to the making of regulations for the prevention of collisions between seaplanes on the surface of water and between ships and seaplanes and subsection (3)(k) above and subsections (4) to (6) below and section 22(l) shall have effect accordingly.”.

(2) In consequence of that extension of powers, omit sections 418 and 419 (collision regulations for seaplanes) and 421 (power to make local regulations) of the 1894 Act.

(3) In section 22(1) of the 1979 Act (provisions supplementary to s.21), at the end insert—

“(e) make provision for compensation to be paid, where a signal is used or displayed otherwise than in accordance with the regulations, for any expense or loss caused in consequence of the signal’s being taken for a signal of distress;

and any compensation falling to be paid by virtue of regulations under paragraph (e) above may, without prejudice to any other remedy, be recovered in the same manner as salvage.”.