The Collision Regulations (Seaplanes) (Amendment) Order 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 768

MERCHANT SHIPPING

SAFETY

The Collision Regulations (Seaplanes) (Amendment) Order 1991

Made

20th March 1991

Laid before Parliament

3rd April 1991

Coming into force

19th April 1991

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 20th day of March 1991

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council Her

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 418(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894(1), as extended by section 97(1) of the Civil Aviation Act 1982(2) and by section 738 of the said Act of 1894, and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, on the joint recommendation of the Secretary of State for Defence and the Secretary of State for Transport(3), and by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Collision Regulations (Seaplanes) (Amendment) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 19th April 1991.

2.  The Collision Regulations (Seaplanes) Order 1989(4), shall be further amended as follows:

In article 4 after the words “the Merchant Shipping (Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions) Regulations 1989”(5) there shall be added “as amended by the Merchant Shipping (Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions) (Amendment) Regulations 1991”(6).

G. I. de Deney

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order further amends the Collision Regulations (Seaplanes) Order 1989 by updating the reference to the Merchant Shipping (Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions) Regulations 1989 to include a reference to the amendment to those Regulations which comes into force on 19th April 1991.

(1)

1894 c. 60.

(2)

1982 c. 16.

(3)

The responsibilities placed on the Admiralty and the Board of Trade under section 418(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 have been transferred to the Secretaries of State under S.I 1970/1537, 1974/692 and 1983/1127.

(4)

S.I. 1989/2005, to which there are amendments not relevant to the subject matter of this Order.

(5)

S.I. 1989/1798.

(6)

S.I. 1991/638.