The Merchant Shipping (Compensation to Seamen—War Damage to Effects) (Revocation) Scheme 1997

Statutory Instruments

1997 No. 1674

MERCHANT SHIPPING

The Merchant Shipping (Compensation to Seamen—War Damage to Effects) (Revocation) Scheme 1997

Made

8th July 1997

Coming into force

1st August 1997

The Secretary of State for Transport, with the consent of the Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 6 and 7 of the Pensions (Navy, Army, Air Force and Mercantile Marine) Act 1939(1) and now vested in him(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Scheme:

1.  This Scheme may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Compensation to Seamen—War Damage to Effects) (Revocation) Scheme 1997 and shall come into force on 1st August 1997.

2.  The Merchant Shipping (Compensation to Seamen—War Damage to Effects) Scheme 1982(3) is hereby revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Glenda Jackson

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Environment, Transport, and the Regions

2nd July 1997

We consent to the making of this Scheme

John McFall

Bob Ainsworth

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

8th July 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Scheme)

This Scheme revokes the Merchant Shipping (Compensation to Seamen—War Damage to Effects) Scheme 1982 which provided for compensation for mariners on British registered ships who sustained war damage to their effects in the Falklands conflict.

(1)

1939 c. 83; sections 6 and 7 were amended by the Pensions (Mercantile Marine) Act 1942 (c. 26).

(2)

S.R. & O. 1939/1470, 1941/654, 1946/375; S.I. 1953/1204, 1959/1768, 1965/145, 1970/1537.

(3)

S.I. 1982/1023.