SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1 Amendments of Merchant Shipping Act 1995 relating to inspection and detention of ships
Power to detain dangerously unsafe ship
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1
Section 95 of the 1995 Act (power to detain dangerously unsafe ship) is amended as follows.
2
For subsection (1) there is substituted—
1
Where a ship which is—
a
in a port in the United Kingdom, or
b
at sea in United Kingdom waters,
appears to a relevant inspector to be a dangerously unsafe ship, the ship may be detained.
3
At the beginning of subsection (2) there is inserted “
Subject to subsection (2A) below
”
, and after that subsection there is inserted—
2A
The power of detention conferred by subsection (1)(b) is not exercisable in relation to a qualifying foreign ship while the ship is exercising—
a
the right of innocent passage, or
b
the right of transit passage through straits used for international navigation.
4
In subsection (3)(c), for “prohibit the ship from going to sea” there is substituted “
require the ship to comply with the terms of the notice
”
.