Merchant Shipping Act 1984
Part I Improvement Notices and Prohibition Notices
Service of notices by inspectors
1 Improvement notices.
2 Prohibition notices.
3 Supplementary provisions as to notices.
Arbitration and compensation
4 Reference of notices to arbitration.
5 Compensation in connection with invalid prohibition notices.
Supplementary
6 Offences.
7 Appointment of inspectors.
8 Service of notices.
9 Application to hovercraft.
10 Expenses of Secretary of State.
11 Interpretation of Part I.
Part II Limitation Tonnage
12 Ascertainment of limitation tonnage.
Part III General
13 Extension to British possessions etc.
14 Citation, construction, repeals, commencement and extent.
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1 Relevant Statutory Provisions for the Purposes of Part I
SCHEDULE 2 Repeals

Merchant Shipping Act 1984

1984 c. 5

An Act to make provision for the service of improvement notices and prohibition notices in connection with statutory provisions relating to the safety of ships and other matters; to make further provision with respect to the ascertainment of ships’ tonnages for the purposes of section 503 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 and section 4 of the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act 1971; and for connected purposes.

C1C2Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1

Act modified by Merchant Shipping Act 1988 (c. 12, SIF 111), s. 47(2)(b), (with s. 58(4), Sch. 8 para. 1) and by S.I. 1989/1991, art. 10

C2

Act excluded by S.I. 1989/1991, arts. 11–14