Wreck Removal Convention Act 2011

Year2011
Wreck Removal Convention Act 2011
CHAPTER 8
CONTENTS
1Wreck Removal Convention
2 Short title and commencement
Schedule — Wreck Removal Convention
ELIZABETH II c. 8
Wreck Removal Convention Act 2011
2011 CHAPTER 8
An Act to implement the Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of
Wrecks 2007. [12th July 2011]
E IT ENACTED by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and
consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Wreck Removal Convention
(1) The Merchant Shipping Act 1995 is amended as follows.
(2) After section 255 insert—
“PART 9A
WRECK REMOVAL CONVENTION
Preliminary
255A “The Wrecks Convention”
(1) In this Part—
(a) “the Wrecks Convention” means the Nairobi International
Convention on the Removal of Wrecks 2007 done in Nairobi on
18 May 2007, and
(b) “Wrecks Convention State” means a State which is a party to the
Wrecks Convention.
(2) The text of the Wrecks Convention is set out in Schedule 11ZA.
B

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