The Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967 (Unregistered Ships) (Amendment) Order 1992

This Statutory Instrument has been made to correct errors in S.I. 1991/2543 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 361

MERCHANT SHIPPING

SAFETY

The Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967 (Unregistered Ships) (Amendment) Order 1992

Made

24th February 1992

Laid before Parliament

3rd March 1992

Coming into force

24th March 1992

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 29(2) and 30(2) of the Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967(1) and now vested in him(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967 (Unregistered Ships) (Amendment) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 24th March 1992.

2.  The Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967 (Unregistered Ships) Order 1991(3) shall be amended as follows:

• For article 2(1)(c) there shall be substituted–

  “(c) wholly owned by persons each of whom is either a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or a body corporate which is established under a law of a part of the United Kingdom and has its principal place of business in a part of the United Kingdom.”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Patrick McLoughlin

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

24th February 1992

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967 (Unregistered Ships) Order 1991 to correct errors in the text of article 2(1)(c).

(1)

1967 c. 27.

(2)

See S.I. 1970/1537.

(3)

S.I. 1991/2543.