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)
C1Functions 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)
C2Act amended by Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1977 (c. 24), ss. 1(3)(c), 4(1)
C3Act extended by S.I. 1981/584, regs. 2–5
C4Act 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
C5Act excluded by S.I. 1989/1991, arts. 11–14
Textual Amendments
F1S. 1 repealed (1.6.1995) by S.I. 1995/1210, reg. 1(4)(e)(5)
Textual Amendments
F2S. 2 repealed (1.5.1994) by 1993 c. 22, s. 84, Sch. 3 Pt.II; S.I. 1993/3137, art. 3(2) Sch.2
Textual Amendments
F3S. 3 repealed (1.6.1995) by S.I. 1995/1210, reg. 1(4)(e)(5)
Textual Amendments
F4S. 4 repealed (1.6.1995) by S.I. 1995/1210, reg. 1(4)(e)(5)
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F5S. 5 repealed (1.6.1995) by S.I. 1995/1210, reg. 1(4)(e)(5)
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F6S. 6 repealed by S.I. 1981/568, reg. 5, Sch. 2
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F7S. 7 repealed (1.6.1995) by S.I. 1995/1210, reg. 1(4)(e)(5)
Textual Amendments
F8S. 8 repealed (1.5.1994) by 1993 c. 22, s. 84, Sch. 5 Pt.II; S.I. 1993/3137, art. 3(2), Sch.2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
F9S. 9(a) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), Sch. Pt. X
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C6The text of s. 9(b)(c) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
Textual Amendments
F10S. 10 repealed (1.5.1994) by 1993 c. 22, s. 84 Sch. 5 Pt.II; S.I. 1993/3137, art. 3(2), Sch.2
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)
C7The 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.
Textual Amendments
F11S. 12 repealed (1.6.1995) by S.I. 1995/1210, reg. 1(4)(e)(5)
Textual Amendments
F12S. 13 repealed (1.6.1995) by S.I. 1995/1210, reg. 1(4)(e)(5)
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F13S. 14 repealed by Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967 (c. 27), s. 33, Sch. 2
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F14S. 15 repealed (1.5.1994) by 1993 c. 22, s. 84, Sch. 5 Pt.II; S.I. 1993/3137, art. 3(2) Sch.2
The matters of which information is to be sent by the master of a ship in accordance with rules under section 24 of the M1Merchant 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.
Textual Amendments
F15S. 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)
(1)–(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F16
(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F17
Textual Amendments
F16S. 18(1)–(3) repealed by Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1977 (c. 24), ss. 1(3)(b), 4(1)
F17S. 18(4) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), Sch. Pt. XI
(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)
C826.5.1965 appointed under s. 19(1) by S.I. 1965/317
Textual Amendments
F18S. 20 added by S.I. 1980/539, reg. 3, Sch. 2
In this Act—
[F20“cargo ship construction and survey rules” means—
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
[F21in 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
F19S. 20 added by S.I. 1980/539, reg. 3, Sch. 2
F20Definitions substituted in s. 20 by S.I. 1981/568, Sch. 2
F21S. 20 para. (ii) substituted by S.I. 1985/212, reg. 3, Sch. 2(a)
F22Definition added by S.I. 1985/212, reg. 3, Sch. 2(b)