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1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Medical Stores) Regulations 1995 and shall come into operation on 1st August 1995.
(2) The Merchant Shipping (Medical Stores) Regulations 1986(1), the Merchant Shipping (Medical Stores) (Amendment) Regulations 1988(2) and the Merchant Shipping (Medical Stores) (Fishing Vessels) Regulations 1988(3) are hereby revoked.
(3) In these Regulations:
“crew” means all persons including the master employed in any capacity on board a vessel;
“dangerous substances” means substances listed as such in [F1Annex 4 of Merchant Shipping Notice 1768 (M+F)];
“fishing vessel” means a vessel for the time being employed in sea-fishing for profit;
[F2“Government ships” has the meaning given in section 308(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995];
“harbour area” means any harbour in the United Kingdom in respect of which a harbour authority (within the meaning of the Harbours Act 1964(4) or, in Northern Ireland, the Harbours Act (Northern Ireland) 1970(5) ) has statutory powers or duties of improvement, maintenance or management;
“inland navigation” means navigation only in waters of Categories A to C as defined in [F3Merchant Shipping Notice 1837(M) Amendment 2];
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[F5“Merchant Shipping Notice” means a Notice described as such, issued by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (an executive agency of the Department for Transport), and includes a reference to any document amending or replacing that Notice which is considered by the Secretary of State to be relevant from time to time and is specified in a Merchant Shipping Notice;]
“medical stores” includes medicines, medical equipment and antidotes;
“owner” in relation to a ship, means the registered owner of the ship unless the ship has been chartered by demise or is managed, either wholly or in part, by a person other than the registered owner under the terms of a management agreement; in that case “owner” includes the demise charterer or the person managing the ship as the case may be;
“Ship Captain’s Medical Guide” means the publication of that name published on behalf of [F6the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (an executive agency of the Department for Transport)];
“tug” means a vessel constructed solely for the purpose of, and normally used for, providing external motive power for floating objects or vessels;
“voyage” means a journey from a port to the next port of call of a ship (which may be the same port).
(4) Any reference in these Regulations to the British Pharmacopoeia, the European Pharmacopoeia, or the British National Formulary shall in its application to a particular case be construed as a reference to the edition thereof current at, or not more than three months before, the time in question.
(5) Any reference in these Regulations to a publication (other than those mentioned in paragraph (4) of this regulation) includes a reference to any amendment thereof published before the date on which these Regulations are made (and, in the case of the United States Pharmacopoeia, means the edition current at such date, as so amended); and shall include any document amending the same, or shall mean any new edition thereof together with any document amending the same, which is considered by the Secretary of State to be relevant from time to time and is specified in a Merchant Shipping Notice.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 1(3) substituted (14.12.2018) by The Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1202), regs. 1(3), 2(2)(a)
F2Words in reg. 1(3) substituted (14.12.2018) by The Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1202), regs. 1(3), 2(2)(b)
F3Words in reg. 1(3) substituted (14.12.2018) by The Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1202), regs. 1(3), 2(2)(c)
F4Words in reg. 1(3) omitted (14.12.2018) by virtue of The Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1202), regs. 1(3), 2(2)(d)
F5Words in reg. 1(3) substituted (14.12.2018) by The Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1202), regs. 1(3), 2(2)(e)
F6Words in reg. 1(3) substituted (14.12.2018) by The Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1202), regs. 1(3), 2(2)(f)
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 1 in force at 1.8.1995, see reg. 1
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