Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997

21 Certain duties not to apply to RNLI.U.K.

(1)In section 233 of the 1995 Act (powers of receiver in case of vessel in distress), at the beginning of subsection (1) there is inserted “Subject to subsection (1A) below,”.

(2)After that subsection there is inserted—

(1A)The receiver may not under subsection (1) above impose any requirement on the master or other person having the charge of a vessel owned or operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.