The Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances for Ships Other Than Ships of Classes III to VI(A)) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

Passenger ships constructed before 1st July 1986

2.—(1) In regulation 7(3):

(a) at the beginning of the paragraph there shall be inserted the words “Subject to paragraph (4),”,

(b) for the word “may” where it first appears there shall be substituted the word “shall”, and

(c) the words “and may be counted for the purpose of compliance with paragraph (4)” shall be deleted.

(2) For regulation 7(4), there shall be substituted the following paragraph:

“(4) On ships which are certified to carry not more than 30 persons at least one of the lifeboats required by paragraph (2) shall be a motor lifeboat of not more than 8.5 metres in length which is kept ready for immediate use in an emergency while the ship is at sea.”.

(3) In regulation 7(16)(c)(i), for the words “rescue boats provided pursuant to paragraph (3)” there shall be substituted the words “motor lifeboats provided pursuant to paragraph (3) or (4)”.

(4) In regulation 7(16)(c)(iv), after the word “accepted” there shall be inserted the words “as respects a United Kingdom ship by the Secretary of State and as respects a non-United Kingdom ship by the Administration of the Government of the State whose flag the ship is entitled to fly,”.

(5) In regulation 8(4)—

(a) at the beginning of the paragraph there shall be inserted the words “Subject to paragraph (5),”,

(b) for the word “may” where it first appears there shall be substituted the word “shall”, and

(c) for the words after “motor lifeboat” there shall be substituted the words “and one of them shall be provided with the equipment specified in Part 4 of Schedule 12”.

(6) For regulation 8(5), there shall be substituted the following paragraph:

“(5) On ships which are certified to carry not more than 30 persons at least one of the lifeboats required by paragraph (3) shall be a motor lifeboat of not more than 8.5 metres in length which is kept ready for immediate use in an emergency while the ship is at sea and which is provided with the equipment specified in Part 4 of Schedule 12.”.

(7) In regulation 8(7), sub-paragraph (a) shall be deleted.

(8) In regulation 8(11)—

(a) before sub-paragraph (b) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph:

“(a) a satellite EPIRB;”, and

(b) in sub-paragraph (b), for the word “sets” there shall be substituted the word “apparatus”.

(9) In regulation 8(19)(a), at the end there shall be inserted the words “Such ships shall comply with the requirements of sub-paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) not later than the first periodical survey after 1st July 2000.”.

(10) In regulation 8(19)(c)(i), for the words “rescue boats provided pursuant to paragraph (4)”, there shall be substituted the words “motor lifeboats provided pursuant to paragraph (4) or (5)”.