Version Superseded: 23/02/2008
Point in time view as at 19/03/1997. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Merchant Shipping Act 1995, Section 263 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 06 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(1)An improvement notice or a prohibition notice may (but need not) include directions as to the measures to be taken to remedy any contravention or matter to which the notice relates; and any such directions may be framed so as to afford the person on whom the notice is served a choice between different ways of remedying the contravention or matter.
(2)An improvement notice or a prohibition notice shall not direct any measures to be taken to remedy the contravention of any of the relevant statutory provisions that are more onerous than those necessary to secure compliance with that provision.
(3)Where an improvement notice or a prohibition notice that is not to take immediate effect has been served—
(a)the notice may be withdrawn by an inspector at any time before the end of the period specified in it in pursuance of section 261(2)(b) or (as the case may be) section 262(4); and
(b)the period so specified may be extended or further extended by an inspector at any time when a reference to arbitration in respect of the notice is not pending under section 264.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 263 modified (16.2.2001) by S.I. 2001/152, reg. 11(2)
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