The Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) (Employment of Young Persons) Regulations 1998

Miscellaneous amendments

17.  The General Duties Regulations shall be amended as follows–

(a) in regulation 2(2) in respect of the definition of “sail training vessel” at the end there shall be inserted “and is operating under a statutory code”;

(b) in regulation 2(2), after the definition of “sail training vessel” there shall be inserted “statutory Code” means–

• The Code of Practice for the Safety of Small Commercial Sailing Vessels(1);

• The Code of Practice for the Safety of Small Commercial Motor Vessels(2); or

• The Code of Practice for Safety of Large Commercial Sailing and Motor Vessels(3);

(c) in regulation 3(3) at the end there shall be inserted “or the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992”(4);

(d) in regulation 4(1)(b) and (3) the words “natural or legal” shall be deleted;

(e) in regulation 5(2) in each place where it occurs the word “duties” shall be substituted with “duty”;

(f) in regulation 17(1) after “1977” there shall be inserted “or the Safety Representatives and Safety Committees Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979”(5);

(g) in regulation 25 after paragraph (2) there shall be inserted–

“(3) Where an offence under any of these Regulations committed by a Scottish partnership is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, a partner, he as well as the partnership is guilty of an offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.”

(1)

Published by The Stationery Office in 1993 (ISBN 0–11–551184–9).

(2)

Published by The Stationery Office in 1993 (ISBN 0–11–551185–7).

(3)

Published by The Stationery Office in 1997 (ISBN 0–11–551911–4).

(4)

S.R. 1992 No. 459 amended by S.R. 1994 No. 478.

(5)

S.R. 1979 No. 437.