(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force certain provisions in the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997, as follows:

Section 1:

Temporary exclusion zones.

Section 9 (partially) and _Schedule 1 (partially):

Amendment of powers of inspection and detention.

Section 10:

Power to require ships to be moved.

Schedules 6 and 7:

Amendments and repeals of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 consequential on the above, and on other provisions of the Act which came into force on Royal Assent.