The Merchant Shipping (Tonnage) (Overseas Territories) Order 1988

Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 1085

MERCHANT SHIPPING

The Merchant Shipping (Tonnage) (Overseas Territories) Order 1988

Made

22nd June 1988

Laid before Parliament

30th June 1988

Coming into force

21st July 1988

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 22nd day of June 1988

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 94 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970(1), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Tonnage) (Overseas Territories) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 21st July 1988.

2.  The provisions of section 91 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970 shall extend to each of the territories, any one of which is in this Order referred to as “the Territory”, specified in Schedule 1 to this Order, as part of the law thereof, with the exceptions, adaptations and modifications specified in Schedule 2 to this Order, and the reference in that section to the Merchant Shipping Act 1965(2) shall be to that Act as extended to the Territory by the Merchant Shipping (Tonnage) (Overseas Territories) Order 1971(3).

G. I. de Deney

Clerk of the Privy Council

Article 2

SCHEDULE 1

• British Virgin Islands

• Falkland Islands

• Saint Helena and Dependencies

• Turks and Caicos Islands

Article 2

SCHEDULE 2

1.  In section 1 (6) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1965, as substituted by section 91:

(a) for any reference to the Board of Trade there shall be substituted a reference to the Governor;

(b) for the reference to the United Kingdom there shall be substituted a reference to the Territory.

2.  In section 1 (6A) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1965, as substituted by section 91, for the reference to a fine not exceeding £100 there shall be substituted a reference in the case of the Turks and Caicos Islands and the British Virgin Islands to a fine not exceeding 200 United States dollars.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order extends to the territories specified in Schedule 1, with the necessary modifications, section 91 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970, which amends section 1(5) and (6) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1965, as extended to the territories by the Merchant Shipping (Tonnage) (Overseas Territories) Order 1971. The extension of section 91 enables effect to be given in the territories to the International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1969 (Cmnd. 4332).

(1)

1970 c. 36.

(2)

1965 c. 47.

(3)

S.I. 1971/383.