2. In this Schedule—
“the 1997 Regulations” means the Merchant Shipping (Tonnage) Regulations 1997(1);
“length overall” and “length” (except in the expression “length overall”) have the same meaning as in the 1997 Regulations; and
“the Tonnage Convention” means the International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1969(2).
S.I. 1997/1510, amended by S.I. 1998/1916 and 1999/3206. There are other amendments but none is relevant.
This Convention (“the Tonnage Convention”) was published in Cmnd. 4332 and subsequently in Cmnd. 8716. An electronic copy of the Tonnage Convention is available via the Foreign and Commonwealth Office treaties database (https://treaties.fco.gov.uk/awweb/pdfopener?md=1&did=68110). A hard copy of Cmnd. 8716 is available for inspection free of charge but by appointment at the Parliamentary Archives, Houses of Parliament, London SW1A 0PW (catalogue number: HL/PO/JO/10/11/2156/147).