PART 2 U.K. Amendments which take effect on exit day

Amendment of the Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) Regulations 1997 U.K.

4.—(1) The Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) Regulations 1997 M1 are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation)—

(a) in paragraph (2) omit the definition of “Directive 2014/27/EU”; and

(b) for paragraph (3) substitute—

“(3) Subject to paragraph (2), words and expressions used in the Regulations have the same meaning as in Council Directive 89/391/EEC of 12 June 1989 on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the health and safety of workers at work M2 , as it had effect immediately before [F1 IP completion day”].

(3) In regulation 8(1)(b) (new or expectant mothers) for “Annexes I and II of Council Directive 92/85/EEC on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the health and safety at work of pregnant workers who have recently given birth or are breast-feeding, as amended by Directive 2014/27/EU” substitute “ Annex A and B of Merchant Shipping Notice 1890 (M+F) ”.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 4(2)(b) substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Merchant Shipping (Consequential Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1000), regs. 1, 2

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 4 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1(2)

Marginal Citations

M1 S.I. 1997/2962, amended by S.I. 2015/21; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.

M2 OJ No. L 183, 29.06.1989, p. 1, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1137/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council OJ No. L 311, 21.11.2008, p. 1.