Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 1869

MERCHANT SHIPPING

SAFETY

The Merchant Shipping (Counting and Registration of Persons on Board Passenger Ships) Regulations 1999

Made

30th June 1999

Laid before Parliament

1st July 1999

Coming into force

22nd July 1999

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, after consulting with the persons referred to in section 86(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995(1), in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 85(1)(a) and (b), (3), (5) to (7) and 86(1) of that Act(2), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, makes the following Regulations:

(1)

1995 c. 21.

(2)

Sections 85 and 86 were amended by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c. 28), section 8. Sections 85 and 86 are applied to hovercraft by the Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) Order 1989, S.I. 1989/1350.