This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 2003/3135 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
Statutory Instruments
2004 No. 931
MERCHANT SHIPPING
The Merchant Shipping (Liability of Shipowners and Others) (New Rate of Interest) Order 2004
Made
25th March 2004
Laid before Parliament
2nd April 2004
Coming into force
28th April 2004
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by paragraph 8(1) of Part II of Schedule 7 to the Merchant Shipping Act 1995( 1 ), with the concurrence of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1. This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Liability of Shipowners and Others) (New Rate of Interest) Order 2004 and shall come into force on 28th April 2004.
2. In this Order “the prescribed rate” means one per cent more than the base rate quoted from time to time by the Bank of England or the rate of interest set by any body which may supersede it and where there is more than one such rate, the lowest of them.
Revocation and amendment
3. —(1)The Merchant Shipping (Liability of Shipowners and Others) (New Rate of Interest) Order 2003 ( 2 ) is hereby revoked.
(2)The Merchant Shipping (Liability of Shipowners and Others) (Rate of Interest) Order 1999 ( 3 ) is amended at article 3(b) by inserting “until 30th December 2003” after “the prescribed rate”.
Rate of interest
4. The rate of interest for the purposes of article 11(1) of the Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976 ( 4 ) shall be the prescribed rate from 31st December 2003 where—
(a) the occurrence takes place before 1 September 1999, but the fund is constituted on or after 1st September 1999; or
(b) the occurrence takes place on or after 1st September 1999.
Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State
David Jamieson
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Transport
25th March 2004
We concur with the making of this Order.
Nick Ainger
Jim Murphy
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
15th March 2004
S.I. 2003/3135 .
S.I. 1999/1922 as amended by S.I.2003/3136 .
Set out in Part I of Schedule 7 to the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 as amended by S.I. 1998/1258 .