Amendment of the Fishing Vessels (Safety Provisions) Rules 1975

4.  The Fishing Vessels (Safety Provisions) Rules 1975(1) shall be amended as follows—

(a) at the end of Rule 1(2)(a) there shall be added:

• “other than fishing vessels of less than 12 metres in length”;

  (b)

  Rules 81 and 106 shall be omitted; and

  (c)

  in the heading to Rule 105 and in paragraph (1) of that Rule, for “9 metres” there shall be substituted “12 metres”.

(1)

S.I. 1975/330, the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1998/928; those Rules now have effect under sections 90, 121 and 122 of, and paragraph 7 of Schedule 14 to, the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (c. 21).