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Statutory Instruments
2005 No. 1919
MERCHANT SHIPPING
The Merchant Shipping (Medical Examination) (Amendment) Regulations 2005
Made
13th July 2005
Laid before Parliament
18th July 2005
Coming into force
9th August 2005
The Secretary of State for Transport, after consulting the persons referred to in section 86(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995( 1 ), in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 85 and 86(1) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Medical Examination) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 9th August 2005.
Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Medical Examination) Regulations 2002
2. —(1)The Merchant Shipping (Medical Examination) Regulations 2002( 2 ) shall be amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2(1), in the definition of “pleasure vessel”, omit “and a relative of the individual or the individual’s husband or wife,”.
(3) In regulation 6(1), for “1765(M)” substitute “1788(M)”.
(4) In regulation 14—
(a) in paragraph (1) after “a valid medical fitness certificate” insert “or an ILO compliant certificate”; and
(b) at the end of the regulation, add—
“ (4) For the purposes of this regulation, an ILO compliant certificate is a certificate of medical fitness which complies with the provisions of articles 4 and 5 of the Medical Examination (Seafarers) Convention 1946 (International Labour Organisation Convention 73 of 1946) ( 3 ) . ”
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
S J Ladyman
Minister of State
Department for Transport
13th July 2005
1995 c. 21 ; sections 85 and 86 were amended by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c. 28) , section 8 and are applied to hovercraft by virtue of the Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) Order 1989 ( S.I. 1989/1350 ) to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.
Cmd. 7109