Merchant Shipping (Deck Cargo Tonnage) Regulations 1983
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1983/439 |
| Year | 1983 |
1983 No. 439
MERCHANT SHIPPING
The Merchant Shipping (Deck Cargo Tonnage) Regulations 198318thMarch 1983
29thMarch 1983
3rdMay 1983
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 85(3) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894(a) hereby makes the following Regulations:—
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Deck Cargo Tonnage) Regulations 1983 and shall come into operation on 3rd May 1983.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations:—
"agent" means a ship's agent or any other person appointed by the owner or master of a ship to make the required declaration of deck cargo on his behalf;
"authorised officer" means a person authorised by and acting on behalf of a collector of dues;
"Certifying Authority" means the Secretary of State or any person authorised by the Secretary of State and includes in particular (if so authorised) Lloyd's Register of Shipping, the British Committee of the Bureau Veritas, the British Committee of Det Norske Veritas, the British Committee of Germanischer Lloyd, and the British Technical Committee of the American Bureau of Shipping;
"collector of dues" means a person appointed under the Merchant Shipping Acts, or otherwise legally authorised, to assess, collect or secure any dues payable on a ship's tonnage;
(a) 1894 c. 60; section 85(3) was substituted by section 31(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 (c. 39).
"deck cargo" has the meaning set out in section 85(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894(a);
"declaration of deck cargo tonnage" means a declaration completed in accordance with regulation 3 below;
"designated place" means in relation to a port the office designated by the collector of dues at that port;
"home trade limits" means the following limits that is to say the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and the Republic of Ireland and the Continent of Europe between the north bank of the River Eider and Brest inclusive.
Ascertainment of deck cargo tonnage
3.—(1) Where deck cargo is consigned to or from a place beyond home trade limits, a declaration in writing of the deck cargo tonnage assessed in accordance with this regulation for the purpose of calculating dues payable shall be completed in duplicate in respect thereof and signed by the master or his agent.
(2) Subject to the following paragraphs of this regulation, the deck cargo tonnage shall be calculated by multiplying the mean length of the space occupied by...
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