1953 No. 1219

Merchant Shipping

The Merchant Shipping Safety Convention (Singapore) No. 2 Order, 1953

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into Operation

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 1st day of August, 1953

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas it is expedient that certain provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act, 1949 (hereinafter called “the Act”), shall apply to British ships registered in the Colony of Singapore:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers vested in Her by section thirty-six of the Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932, as amended by section thirty of the Act, and all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—

1

The provisions of those sections of the Act mentioned in the Schedule hereto that are expressed to apply only to British ships registered in the United Kingdom shall apply to British ships registered in the Colony of Singapore.

2

This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping Safety Convention (Singapore) No. 2 Order, 1953, and shall come into operation on the fifth day of August, 1953.

W.G. Agnew

THE SCHEDULE

  • Section 3.

  • Section 12.

  • Section 19.

  • Section 22.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Section 36(3) of the Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932 (which gave effect to an International Safety Convention of 1929) gives Her Majesty power by Order in Council to direct that provisions of Part I of the Act of 1932 expressed to apply to British ships registered in the United Kingdom shall apply to British ships registered in other parts of Her Majesty's overseas territories to which that Act can be extended.

Section 30 of the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act, 1949 (which gives effect to a new Convention of 1948, intended to supersede that of 1929), provides that the reference in section 36 of the Act of 1932 to Part I of that Act is to include a reference to the Act of 1949.

This Order provides that sections 3, 12, 19 and 22 of the Act of 1949 shall apply to British ships registered in Singapore.