Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1977
| Year | 1977 |
Merchant Shipping(Safety Convention) Act 1977
1977 CHAPTER 24
An Act to enable effect to be given to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea signed in London on 1st November 1974, and for purposes connected therewith.
[23rd July 1977]
Be 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 Modifications of 1949 and 1964 Acts for purposes of 1974 Convention.
(1) The provisions of this section shall have effect for the purpose of enabling effect to be given to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea signed in London on 1st November 1974 (in this Act referred to as ‘the 1974 Convention’) which replaces the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea signed in London on 17th June 1960 (in this Act referred to as ‘the 1960 Convention’).
(2) The Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1949 (in this Act referred to as ‘the 1949 Act’) shall have effect as if—
(a ) the expression ‘the Safety Convention’, except where it appears in the preamble, referred to the 1974 Convention; and
(b ) references therein to that Act, except in subsections (1) and (4) of section 37 (commencement and citation), included references to this Act.
(3) The Merchant Shipping Act 1964 (in this Act referred to as ‘the 1964 Act’) shall have effect—
(a ) with the omission in section 1 (which applies the 1949 Act to the 1960 Convention and construes references to that Act as including references to the 1964 Act) of the words from the beginning to ‘as 'the Safety Convention')’ and paragraph (a ); and
(b ) with the omission of subsections (1) to (3) of section 18 (transitional provisions); and
(c ) as if the expression ‘the Convention’ referred to the 1974 Convention,
(4) In the following enactments, namely,—
(a ) section 1(1) of the 1949 Act (construction rules), and
(b ) subsections (1) and (2) of section 2 of the 1964 Act (cargo ship construction and survey rules),
after the words ‘and machinery of’, in each place where they occur, there shall be inserted the words ‘and the fuel used in’.
(5) In subsection (7) of section 24 of the 1949 Act (definitions of the expressions ‘grain’ and ‘ship carrying a cargo of grain’)—
(a ) after the words ‘pulses and seeds’ there shall be inserted the words ‘whether in natural or processed form’; and
(b ) the words from ‘and the expression 'ship carrying a cargo of grain'’ to the end of the subsection shall be omitted.
2 Nuclear ship rules.
2. For the purpose of enabling effect to be given to the provisions of Chapter VIII of the Annex to the 1974 Convention (nuclear ships), so far as those provisions are not implemented by or under any provision of the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1974...
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