Merchant Shipping (Limitation of Liability) (Sterling Equivalents) Order 1976

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1976/1031
Year1976

1976 No. 1031

MERCHANT SHIPPING

The Merchant Shipping (Limitation of Liability) (Sterling Equivalents) Order 1976

1stJuly 1976

30thJuly 1976

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(3) of the Merchant Shipping (Liability of Shipowners and Others) Act 1958(a), and now vested in him(b), and by section 4(4) of the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act 1971(c), as amended by section 9 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1974(d), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby orders as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Limitation of Liability) (Sterling Equivalents) Order 1976 and shall come into operation on 30th July 1976.

2. The Merchant Shipping (Limitation of Liability) (Sterling Equivalents) Order 1975(e) and the Merchant Shipping (Limitation of Liability for Oil Pollution) (Sterling Equivalents) (No. 2) Order 1975(f) are hereby revoked.

3. The Interpretation Act 1889(g) shall apply for the interpretation of this Order as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament and as if this Order and the Orders hereby revoked were Acts of Parliament.

4. For the purposes of section 1 of the Merchant Shipping (Liability of Shipowners and Others) Act 1958, £132·81 and £42·84 are hereby specified as the amounts which shall be taken as equivalent to 3,100 gold francs and 1,000 gold francs respectively.

5. For the purposes of section 4 of the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act 1971, £85.69 and £8,997,093 are hereby specified as the amounts which shall be taken as equivalent to 2,000 gold francs and 210 million gold francs respectively.

K. W. McQueen, An Assistant Secretary of the Department of Trade.

1st July 1976.

(a) 1958 c. 62.

(b) S.I. 1970/1537 (1970 III, p. 5293).

(c) 1971 c. 59.

(d) 1974 c. 43.

(e) S.I. 1975/1615 (1975 III, p. 5613).

(f) S.I. 1975/1614 (1975 III, p. 5611).

(g) 1889 c. 63.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This Note is not part of the Order.)

Under section 503 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 (c. 60) and section 2 of the Merchant Shipping (Liability of Shipowners and Others) Act 1900 (c. 32) as amended by the Merchant Shipping (Liability of Shipowners and Others) Act 1958...

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