This Statutory Instrument supersedes S.I.1991/2543, as amended, and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

1993 No. 1994

MERCHANT SHIPPING

SAFETY

The Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967 (Unregistered Ships) Order 1993

Made

5th August 1993

Laid before Parliament

13th August 1993

Coming into force

3rd September 1993

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 29(2) and 30(2) of the Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967(1) and now vested in him(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes the following Order:

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967 (Unregistered Ships) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 3rd September 1993.

(2) In this Order “the Act” means the Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967.

(3) The Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967 (Unregistered Ships) Order 1991(3) and the Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967 (Unregistered Ships) (Amendment) Order 1992(4) are hereby revoked.

2.—(1) For the purposes of section 29 of the Act the Secretary of State specifies the following class of ships, that is to say ships which are—

(a)British ships to which the Act applies; and

(b)not registered, whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere; and

(c)wholly owned by persons each of whom either is resident in the United Kingdom or is a body corporate which has its principal place of business in the United Kingdom.

(2) The Secretary of State directs that in all circumstances the provisions of the Act relating to ships registered in the United Kingdom shall have effect in relation to ships of the class specified in paragraph (1) above as if they were registered in the United Kingdom.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Caithness

Minister of State,

Department of Transport

5th August 1993

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order applies the Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967 to a class of unregistered This Order applies the Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967 to a class of unregistered British ships as if they were ships registered in the United Kingdom.This has the effect, in particular, of enabling the Secretary of State for Transport to exempt in certain cases such ships from all of the provisions of the Act and of the Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Rules 1968, or from such provisions of the Act and Rules as may be specified in a Load Line Exemption Certificate.

The Order replaces a 1991 Order and an amending Order, which each contained an error.

(1)

1967 c. 27.

(2)

See S.I. 1970/1537.

(3)

S.I. 1991/2543.

(4)

S.I. 1992/361.