Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1949

35 Consequential amendments of Merchant Shipping Acts

(1) In subsection (3) of section seven hundred and twenty-four of the principal Act, for the words " passenger steamers " there shall be substituted the word " ships. "

(2) Where a ship is detained under any provision of this Act authorising the detention of a ship until the production of a certificate, subsection (2) of section four hundred and sixty of the principal Act (which makes the owner of a ship liable to pay to the Minister his costs in connection with her detention and survey) shall apply as if she had been finally detained under that Act.

(3) So far as Part I of the Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932, requires that any rules or regulations shall implement the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1929, it shall cease to have effect.

(4) Section sixty-nine of the said Act of 1932 (which requires notice to be given to a consular officer of the detention of a foreign ship, or of proceedings against her master or owner, under that Act), and subsection (3) of section seventy-three of that Act (which requires ships registered in the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man to be treated for the purpose of any provisions of that Act relating to Safety Convention ships not registered in the United Kingdom as if they were registered in the United Kingdom), shall have effect as if any reference therein to that Act included a reference to this Act.

(5) In subsection (1) of section two hundred and seventy-two of the principal Act and in subsection (1) of section nine of the said Act of 1932. for any reference to a wireless telegraph installation there shall be substituted a reference to a radio installation.

(6) In subsection (1) of section nine of the said Act of 1932 (which relates to the survey of passenger steamers by radio surveyors), for any reference to an exemption under the Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Act, 1919, from the obligations imposed by that Act, there shall be substituted a reference to an exemption from the obligations imposed by the radio rules.