Merchant Shipping Act 1974 (Guernsey) Order 1981

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1981/225
Year1981

1981 No. 225

MERCHANT SHIPPING

The Merchant Shipping Act 1974 (Guernsey) Order 1981

18thFebruary 1981

26thFebruary 1981

20thMarch 1981

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 18th day of February 1981

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 20(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1974(a) and section 738(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894(b), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping Act 1974 (Guernsey) Order 1981 and shall come into operation on 20th March 1981.

2. In this Order and the Schedule hereto, the expression "Guernsey" means the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the expression the "Act of 1979" means the Merchant Shipping Act 1979(c).

3. Part I of, together with sections 22, 23 and 24 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Merchant Shipping Act 1974, excluding there peals thereto made by Schedule 7 to the Act of 1979, shall extend to Guernsey subject to the exceptions, modifications and adaptations specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Order and, as respects the amendments made by section 38(4) of the Act of 1979, to the provisions in Part II of the Schedule relating to the coming into force of those amendments.

4. The Merchant Shipping Act 1974 (Guernsey) Order 1975(d) and the Merchant Shipping Act 1974 (Guernsey) (Amendment) Order 1977(e) are hereby revoked.

N. E. Leigh, Clerk of the Privy Council.

(a) 1974 c.43; sections 1(6) and (7), 2(7)(a), 4, 5 and 6(5) (a) and Schedule 1 are amended by section 38(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 (c.39); section 2(9) is amended by Schedule 4 to the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (c.2); section 3(5) is amended by Part IV of Schedule 6 to the Merchant Shipping Act 1979; section 3(6) is amended by paragraph 18 of Part VI of that Schedule and section 20(1) is referred to in the declaration in section 38(5) of that Act.

(b) 1894 c.60.

(c) 1979 c.39.

(d) S.I. 1975/2182 as amended by S.I. 1977/1241.

(e) S.I. 1977/1241.

Article 3

SCHEDULE

PART I

EXCEPTIONS, MODIFICATIONS AND ADAPTATIONS IN THE EXTENSION OF THE MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1974 TO GUERNSEY

1. Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to the Merchant Shipping Act 1974 or any other enactment shall be to that enactment as it has effect in Guernsey.

2. Unless the context otherwise requires or except in any reference to Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, for any reference to the United Kingdom there shall be substituted a reference to...

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