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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)

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)

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

Application of Act of 1949 to new ConventionU.K.

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

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F1S. 1 repealed (1.6.1995) by S.I. 1995/1210, reg. 1(4)(e)(5)

New requirements for cargo shipsU.K.

F22. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .U.K.

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F33. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .U.K.

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F3S. 3 repealed (1.6.1995) by S.I. 1995/1210, reg. 1(4)(e)(5)

F44. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .U.K.

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F4S. 4 repealed (1.6.1995) by S.I. 1995/1210, reg. 1(4)(e)(5)

F55. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .U.K.

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F5S. 5 repealed (1.6.1995) by S.I. 1995/1210, reg. 1(4)(e)(5)

6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F6U.K.

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F77. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .U.K.

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F7S. 7 repealed (1.6.1995) by S.I. 1995/1210, reg. 1(4)(e)(5)

Damage control and life-saving appliancesU.K.

F88. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .U.K.

Textual Amendments

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

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.

Radio installations and certificatesU.K.

F1010. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .U.K.

Textual Amendments

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)

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.

F1112. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .U.K.

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F11S. 12 repealed (1.6.1995) by S.I. 1995/1210, reg. 1(4)(e)(5)

MiscellaneousU.K.

F1213. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .U.K.

Textual Amendments

F12S. 13 repealed (1.6.1995) by S.I. 1995/1210, reg. 1(4)(e)(5)

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F1415. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .U.K.

Textual Amendments

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 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.

Marginal Citations

F1517. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .U.K.

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)

SupplementaryU.K.

18 Transitional provisions and repeals.U.K.

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

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

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)

C826.5.1965 appointed under s. 19(1) by S.I. 1965/317

[F18Interpretation.]U.K.

Textual Amendments

In this Act—

  • [F20cargo 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)

    [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;]]

  • [F20the 1981 Regulations” means the Merchant Shipping (Cargo Ship, Construction and Survey) Regulations 1981]

  • [F22the 1984 Regulations” means the Merchant Shipping (Cargo Ship Construction and Survey) Regulations 1984.]]

Textual Amendments

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)

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