The Merchant Shipping (Dangerous Goods and Marine Pollutants) Regulations 1990

Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 2605

MARINE POLLUTION

MERCHANT SHIPPING

SAFETY

The Merchant Shipping (Dangerous Goods and Marine Pollutants) Regulations 1990

Made

19th December 1990

Laid before Parliament

21st December 1990

Coming into force

1st January 1991

The Secretary of State for Transport in exercise of powers:—

(i)

conferred on him by article 3 of the Merchant Shipping (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Order 1990(1);

(ii)

conferred on him by sections 21(1)(a) and (b) and (3), (4), (5) and (6) and 22(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979(2), after consulting with the persons referred to in section 22(2) of that Act; and

(iii)

conferred by section 15(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974(3), and now vested in him(4), after consulting with the Health and Safety Commission, in accordance with section 50(1) of that Act, it appearing to the Secretary of State that it was not appropriate to consult with any other body for the purposes of that subsection;

and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

(1)

S.I. 1990/2595.

(2)

1979 c. 39: section 21(6) was amended by section 49(3) of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48).

(3)

1974 c. 37; sections 15 and 50 were amended by the Employment Protection Act 1975 (c. 71) Schedule 15, paragraphs 6 and 16 respectively.

(4)

S.I. 1979/571 and 1981/238.