Merchant Shipping (Musters) Rules 1965
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1965/1113 |
| Year | 1965 |
1965 No. 1113
MERCHANT SHIPPING
SAFETY
The Merchant Shipping (Musters) Rules 196511thMay 1965
19thMay 1965
26thMay 1965
The Board of Trade in exercise of their powers under Section 427 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894(a) as substituted by Section 2 of the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1949(b) and as having effect by virtue of the Transfer of Functions (Shipping and Construction of Ships) Order 1965(c) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf hereby make the following Rules:—
Interpretation and Repeal
1.—(1) These Rules shall come into operation on the 26th May 1965 and may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Musters) Rules 1965.
(2) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression "muster" includes a boat-drill and a fire-drill.
(3) These Rules apply to—
(a) British ships, except ships registered in a Dominion within the meaning of the Statute of Westminster 1931 or in India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Ghana, Malaysia, the Republic of Cyprus, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Malta, Zambia, The Gambia, the Republic of Ireland, or in any territory administered by Her Majesty's Government in any such Dominion;
(b) other ships while they are within any port in the United Kingdom.
Provided that these Rules shall not apply to a ship by reason of her being within a port in the United Kingdom if she would not have been in any such port but for stress of weather or any other circumstance that neither the master nor the owner nor the charterer (if any) of the ship could have prevented or forestalled.
(4) The Interpretation Act 1889(d), shall apply to the interpretation of these Rules as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament and as if these Rules and the Rules hereby revoked were Acts of Parliament.
(5) The Merchant Shipping (Musters) Rules 1952(e) are hereby revoked.
Classification of Ships
2. For the purposes of these Rules the ships to which these Rules apply shall be arranged in the same classes in which ships are arranged for the purposes of the Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances) Rules 1965(f), and any reference in these Rules to a ship of any class shall be construed accordingly.
(a) 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60.
(b) 12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6. c. 43.
(c) S.I. 1965/145 (1965 I, p. 438).
(d) 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63.
(e) S.I. 1952/1951 (1952 II, p. 1927).
(f) S.I. 1965/1105 (1965 II, p. 2940).
Muster List
3.—(1) The Master of every ship of...
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