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Statutory Instruments
Merchant Shipping
Safety
Made
15th November 2022
Laid before Parliament
16th November 2022
Coming into force
8th December 2022
The Secretary of State is satisfied, for the purposes of section 47(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995(1), that it is necessary or expedient, in the interests of safety, to make Regulations in so far as they require ships to carry qualified seamen.
The Secretary of State, after consulting the persons referred to in section 86(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995(2), and in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 85(1), (3), (5) and (7), 86(1)(a), (b), (c) and (d), 302(1) and 306A of that Act, article 2 of the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution) (Law of the Sea Convention) Order 1996(3), and article 2 of the Merchant Shipping (Control of Pollution) (SOLAS) Order 1998(4), and with the consent of the Treasury, makes the following Regulations
1995 c. 21. For amendments, see footnote (b) below. There are other amending instruments but none is relevant.
Sections 47A and 47B were inserted by the Marine Navigation Act 2013 (c. 23), section 10. Sections 85 and 86 were amended by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c. 28), sections 8 and 29(2) and Schedule 7. Section 85 was amended by the British Overseas Territories Act 2002 (c. 8), section 2(3). Section 306A was inserted by the Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), section 106. There are other amendments but none is relevant.
S.I. 1996/282. Article 2 was amended by the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23), Schedule 4, Part 1, paragraph 3 and S.I. 2022/844.
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