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Prospective

Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction: Ships of Classes I, II and II(A)) Regulations 1998U.K.

5.  The Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction: Ships of Classes I, II and II(A)) Regulations 1998(1) shall be amended as follows—

(a)in the first sentence of regulation 4, after “from” there shall be inserted “any of”;

(b)in regulation 6, for “regulations 10, 14, 17 to 19 (inclusive) and 21,” there shall be substituted “regulations 10, 14 and 17 to 19 (inclusive),”;

(c)in regulation 11(4), for “regulation 10(3)” there shall be substituted “regulation 10(7)”;

(d)in regulation 12(2), for “the provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Rules 1968” there shall be substituted “the provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Regulations 1998(2)”;

(e)in regulation 32(2)(f), for “regulation 31” there shall be substituted “regulation 34”;

(f)in regulation 43(1), for “is in compliance with stability criteria in the relevant regulations” there shall be substituted “is in compliance with the requirements of such of regulations 37, 42, 44 to 46 (inclusive) and this regulation as are applicable to that ship”;

(g)in regulation 62(5), for sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted:

(a)the design and the materials of which the respective items are constructed;; and

(h)in regulation 91(5) for “not exceeding level 5 or, on conviction or indictment,” there shall be substituted “not exceeding the statutory maximum or, on conviction on indictment,”.

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 5 in force at 11.6.2001, see reg. 1

(1)

S.I. 1998/2514. By virtue of regulation 5(1)(a) of the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2687) S.I. 1998/2514 ceases to apply to certain types of passenger ship of 24 metres or over in length engaged on certain domestic voyages from dates specified in regulation 4 of S.I. 2000/2687.

(2)

S.I. 1998/2241.