Statutory Instruments

2020 No. 673

Merchant Shipping

The Merchant Shipping (Safety of Navigation) Regulations 2020

Made

at 11.19 a.m. on 9th July 2020

Laid before Parliament

at 3.00 p.m. on 9th July 2020

Coming into force

31st July 2020

The Secretary of State, after consulting the persons referred to in section 86(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995(1), and in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 77(2) and (5), 85(1), (3)(a), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (k), (l), (n), (o), (p) and (q), and (5) to (7), 86(1)(a), (b), (c) and (d), 302(1) and 306A of that Act, and with the consent of the Treasury, makes the following Regulations.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

(1)

1995 c. 21. Sections 85 and 86 were amended by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c. 28), sections 8 and 29(2) and Schedule 7. Section 85 was amended by the British Overseas Territories Act 2002 (c. 8), section 2(3). Section 306A was inserted by the Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), section 106. There are other amendments but none is relevant.