Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 10th April 2003.

Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) Regulations

2. —(1)The Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) Regulations 2000( 3 ) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2(1) (Interpretation), at the end of the definition of “the Directive” there shall be added

• “ as amended by Commission Directive 2002/25/ EC of 5th March 2002 amending Council Directive 98/18/EC on safety rules and standards for passenger ships ( 4 ) , and as amended by Directive 2002/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5th November 2002 amending the Directives on maritime safety and the prevention of pollution from ships ( 5 ) in so far as the references in the Directive as so amended to the Conventions, Codes and System in their up-to-date versions:

  (a)

  relate to all or any of the purposes set out in section 85(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995,

  (b)

  are considered by the Secretary of State to be relevant from time to time, and

  (c)

  are specified in a Merchant Shipping Notice ” .

(3) In regulation 6:

(a) after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:

“ (1A) A ship which is less than 24 metres in length shall, in probable loading conditions and after correcting for the effect of free surface of liquids in tanks, satisfy the stability criteria set out in Schedule 1 of Merchant Shipping Notice 1699. ” , and

(b) in paragraph (2), after “paragraph (1)” there shall be inserted “or (1A)”.

Amendment of the Survey and Certification Regulations

3.The Merchant Shipping (Survey and Certification) Regulations 1995( 6 ) shall be amended by the insertion in regulation 1(2), at the end of the definition of “the Directive”( 7 ), of the words “as amended by Commission Directive ships and as amended by Directive ships”.