Statutory Instruments
SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY
Made
8th July 1991
Laid before Parliament
10th July 1991
Coming into force
31st July 1991
The Secretary of State, in exercise of his powers under section 1(3) of the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977(1), hereby makes the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the British Shipbuilders Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 31st July 1991.
2. Section 1(2)(b) of the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977 shall have effect with the substitution of the figure “2” for the figure “7”.
3. In Regulations 5(1) and 8 of the British Shipbuilders Regulations 1977(2) the words “or six, whichever is the greater number” shall cease to have effect.
E. Leigh
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Trade and Industry
8th July 1991
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend section 1(2)(b) of the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977 by reducing the minimum number of members of British Shipbuilders in addition to the chairman from 7 to 2. They also make consequential amendments to the British Shipbuilders Regulations 1977 regarding the quorum and resolutions in writing of British Shipbuilders.
1977 c. 3. The Act was amended by section 10 of the British Aerospace Act 1980 (c. 26).
S.I. 1977/626.