Statutory Instruments
2000 No. 484
MERCHANT SHIPPING
SAFETY
The Merchant Shipping (Safe Manning, Hours of Work and Watchkeeping) (Amendment) Regulations 2000
Made
25th February 2000
Laid before Parliament
1st March 2000
Coming into force
1st April 2000
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, after consulting the persons referred to in section 86(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995( 1 ), in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 85(1), (3) and (6) and 86(1) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Safe Manning, Hours of Work and Watchkeeping) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 1st April 2000.
Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Safe Manning, Hours of Work and Watchkeeping) Regulations 1997
2. —(1) The Merchant Shipping (Safe Manning, Hours of Work and Watchkeeping) Regulations 1997( 2 ) shall be amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2(1), before the definition of “company” there shall be inserted:
“ “certificate of equivalent competency” means a document entitled “certificate of equivalent competency” issued under regulation 5(2) and (3) of the Merchant Shipping (Training and Certification) Regulations 1997 ( 3 ) ; ” .
(3) In paragraphs (a) and (b) of regulation 4(2), before “seaman” there shall be inserted “master and”.
(4) In paragraph (a) of regulation 4(2), after “certificate” there shall be inserted “or a certificate of equivalent competency”.
(5) In paragraph (c) of regulation 4(2), before “seamen” there shall be inserted “masters and”.
(6) In paragraph (a) of regulation 15(1), before “all seamen” there shall be inserted “the master and”.
(7) In paragraph (b) of regulation15(1), before “seamen” there shall be inserted “master or”.
(8) In paragraph (a) of regulation 15(3), before “any seaman” there shall be inserted “the master or”.
(9) In regulation 18, after “individual cases” there shall be added “, and may alter or cancel any exemptions so granted”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions.
Keith Hill
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
25th February 2000
1995 c. 21 ; sections 85 and 86 were amended by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c. 28) , section 8.
S.I. 1997/1320 , amended by S.I. 1997/1911 .
S.I. 1997/348 , amended by S.I. 1997/1911 .