SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4 Pre-Consolidation Amendments

Extent and application: generalised provisions

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1

The Secretary of State may make regulations specifying any description of non-United Kingdom ships and directing that such of the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts and of instruments under those Acts as may be specified in the regulations—

a

shall extend to non-United Kingdom ships of that description and to masters and seamen employed in them, or

b

shall so extend in such circumstances as may be so specified, with such modifications (if any) as may be so specified.

2

Regulations under this paragraph may contain such transitional, supplementary and consequential provisions as appear to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient.

3

In this paragraph “non-United Kingdom ships” means ships which are not registered in the United Kingdom.