The Merchant Shipping (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2002

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

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

(a) in regulation 75, for “(published 1978)” there shall be substituted “ (published 1990)”; and

(b) in regulation 91—

(i) for paragraph (5) there shall be substituted—

“(5) If any officer appointed in accordance with regulation 30(1) reports to the master or other officer in charge of the bridge a door to be closed and locked when it is not in fact closed and locked he shall be guilty of an offence, punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or, on conviction on indictment, by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years and a fine.”, and

(ii) in paragraph (6), for “level 3 on the standard scale” there shall be substituted “the statutory maximum”.

(1)

S.I. 1998/2514; a relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2001/1638. 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 in certain domestic voyages from dates specified in regulation 4 of S.I. 2000/2687.