54.—(1) For the purpose of checking compliance with these Regulations, a relevant inspector (or, in the case of a United Kingdom ship, a proper officer) may at all reasonable times go on board a ship and inspect the ship, its equipment, any articles on it and any document carried on it.
(2) Section 258(1A), (3) and (5) of the Act M1 (powers to inspect ships and their equipment, etc.) apply in relation to paragraph (1) as if references in those subsections to “subsection (1) above” and “this section” were references to paragraph (1).
(3) Sections 259(1), (2), (5), (7) and (9) to (12) and 260(1) and (2) of the Act (powers of inspectors in relation to premises and ships, and supplementary provisions) apply in relation to the inspection of a ship to which this regulation applies for the purpose of checking compliance with these Regulations as if—
(a)references in those sections to “this Act” were to these Regulations;
(b)for section 259(1)(b) there were substituted a reference to any ship to which this regulation applies;
(c)in section 259(2)(h)(iii) the words “or any instrument made under it” were omitted; and
(d)in section 259(5) the reference to “subsections (2) and (4) above for the purposes of Chapter II of Part VI” were to “subsection (2) above”, and the reference to “those subsections” were to “that subsection”.
(4) Any regulations made under section 259(8) or section 260(3) of the Act apply for the purposes of the provisions of those sections as applied by paragraphs (2) and (3) as they apply for the purposes of the Act.
(5) Sections 261 to 266 of the Act M2 (improvement notices and prohibition notices) apply for the purposes of these Regulations as if the meaning of “the relevant statutory provisions” in section 261(4) included these Regulations.
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M1Subsection (1A) was inserted by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c. 28), Schedule 1, paragraph 4.
M2Section 261 was amended by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997, Schedule 6, paragraph 16 and by S.I. 1998/2241 and S.I. 1998/2647. Section 264 was amended by the Arbitration Act 1996 (c. 23), Schedule 4, and by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), Schedule 11; there are further amendments made by the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c.15), section 50 and Schedule 10 which have yet to be brought into force.