Statutory Instruments
MERCHANT SHIPPING
SAFETY
Made
23rd July 1984
Laid before Parliament
10th August 1984
Coming into Operation
(a) for the purposes of Parts I (except Regulation 1(3)) and III
1st September 1984
(b) for all other purposes
1st January 1987
The Secretary of State for Transport, being satisfied that it is necessary or expedient in the interests of safety to make the following Regulations in so far as they require fishing vessels and government fishery research vessels to carry qualified deck officers and engineer officers, and after consulting with the organisations referred to in section 99(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970 and the persons referred to in section 22(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 43 of the said Act of 1970(1) and now vested in him(2) and of section 21(1)(a), 3(e), (5) and 6(b) and (bb) and section 22(1)(a) and 3(a) of the said Act of 1979(3), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Section 43 was amended by sections 37(2) and (3), 43(1) and Part IV of Schedule 6 to the Merchant Shipping Act 1979.
See S.I. 1970/1537.
Section 21(6)(b) and (bb) were substituted by section 49(3)(a) of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c.48).