Amendments to the Passenger Ship Construction Regulations
1.—(1) The Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction: Ships of Classes I, II and II(A)) Regulations 1998 shall be amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2(6)(a), for the definition of Class II(A) ships there shall be substituted the following definition:
“Ships engaged on voyages of any kind other than international voyages, which are not—
(i)ships of Classes III to VI(A) as defined in the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction: Ships of Classes III to VI(A)) Regulations 1998; or
(ii)ships of Classes A, B, C or D as defined in the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) Regulations 2000 which are new ships, engaged on domestic voyages, for the purposes of those Regulations.”.
(3) In regulation 3(1), after the words “Subject to paragraphs (2) to (6) below” there shall be inserted the words “and to regulation 5(1) of the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) Regulations 2000 (which relates to passenger ships of Class II(A) which are 24 metres or over in length and are existing ships, engaged on domestic voyages, for the purposes of thos Regulations),”.