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The Merchant Shipping (Distress Messages) Regulations 1998
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1998 No. 1691
MERCHANT SHIPPING
SAFETY
The Merchant Shipping (Distress Messages) Regulations 1998
Made
6th July 1998
Laid before Parliament
20th July 1998
Coming into force
10th August 1998
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, after consulting the persons referred to in section 86(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995(1), in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 85(1)(a) and (b), (3) and (7) and 86(1) and (2) of that Act(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
(1)
(2)
Sections 85 and 86 were amended by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c. 28), section 8. Sections 85 and 86 were applied to hovercraft by the Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) Order 1989, S.I. 1989/1350, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.
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