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Statutory Instruments
2020 No. 496
Merchant Shipping
Safety
The Merchant Shipping (Port State Control and Prevention of Pollution from Noxious Liquid Substances in Bulk) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
Made
at 11.26 a.m. on 11th May 2020
Laid before Parliament
at 2.00 p.m. on 11th May 2020
Coming into force
1st June 2020
The Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 85(1) and (3) and 86(1)(a) and (b) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995( 1 ), articles 3 and 5 of the Merchant Shipping (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Order 1987( 2 ) and article 2 of the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution) (Law of the Sea Convention) Order 1996( 3 ) makes the following Regulations.
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Port State Control and Prevention of Pollution from Noxious Liquid Substances in Bulk) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 and come into force on 1st June 2020.
Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Port State Control) Regulations 2011
2. —(1)The Merchant Shipping (Port State Control) Regulations 2011( 4 ) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation of Part 1), in the definition of “Conventions”, for paragraphs (b) and (c) substitute—
“ (b) the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 (SOLAS 74);
(c) the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocols of 1978 and 1997 relating thereto (MARPOL); ” .
Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution from Noxious Liquid Substances in Bulk) Regulations 2018
3. —(1)The Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution from Noxious Liquid Substances in Bulk) Regulations 2018( 5 ) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 5 (application), in paragraphs (3) and (4), in both place it occurs, after “United Kingdom waters” add “or controlled waters”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Kelly Tolhurst
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Transport
At 11.26 a.m. on 11th May 2020
1995 c. 21 . 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, Part 1. Section 85 was amended by the British Overseas Territories Act 2002 (c. 8) , section 2(3). There are other amendments but none is relevant.
S.I. 1987/470 , amended by S.I. 1990/2595 , 1997/2569 , 1998/254 and 2015/664 . Following the consolidation of section 20 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 (c. 39) , the Order has effect as if made under section 128 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (c. 21) . The effect of the Order is extended by section 128(5) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, so as to authorise the making of regulations for the purpose of giving effect to agreements which modify the agreements described in section 128(1).
S.I. 1996/282 , amended by the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009, Schedule 4, Part 1, paragraph 3 and S.I. 2015/664 .
S.I. 2011/2601 , amended by S.I. 2017/825 , 2018/1221 (which contains prospective amendments) and 2019/940 ; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.
S.I. 2018/68 , to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.