ERAF: A6.SI.1965.1115STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS MERCHANT SHIPPING The Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 196

Mason, Roy

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS ; e. • " M.O.T. AND F.O.C. 1965 No. 1115 . Fi�E RESEARCH 'I 01CA�HZA TION MERCHANT SHIPPING R[�cRdKE U3RARY SAFETY t N�:fi-6 /' 6.,,'jj� 1/',,-The Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1965 Made -Laid before Parliame11l Coming into Operation 11th May 1965 19th May 1965 26th May 1965 The Board of Trade in exercise of <heir powers under Section 18(3) of tJbe Merchant Shipping Act 1964(a) and as having elfeot by viPtue of the Transfor of Functions (Shipping and Cons,ruction of Ships) Order 1965(b) and of all other powers enabling them in tlba ... bebaJf !hereby make the following regulations ;-1.-(1) These Regulations shall come intO operation on the 26th May 1965 and may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1965. (2) In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires. the following expressions have the following meanings respectively:-.. The Acts" means tbe Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1949(c) and the Merchant Shipping Aot 1964; .. The Safety Convention of 1948" means the lntemational Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 1948; .. The Safety Convention of 1960" means the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 1960; .. 1948 certificate" means a certificate which-(a) purports to have been issued in accordance with the Safety Con­vention of 1948 in respect of a ship registered outside the United Kingdom; and (b) complies with such of the provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Accepted Solety Convention Cert·ifieates) Regulations 1952(d). as are applicable in the circumstances. (3) The Intellnetation Act 1889(0) shall apply to Ilhe jnterpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament. Z. Any country to which the Safety Convention of 1948 applies shall. up to and including the 25th May 1966. be treated for Ihe purposes of the Acts as if it were a country to which the Safety Convention of 1960 applies. 3. Any 1948 certificate which-(a) relates to a ship registered in a country in respect of which the Safety Convention of 1960 takes effect on the 26th May 1965: and (b) is in force on the 26th May 1965 shall. so long as it remains in force, be treated as if it were an accepted Convention certificate within the meaning of the Acts. (0) 1964. c. 47. (b)S.I. 1961/l4l (t96l1. p. 438). (c) t2. t3 & 14 G",. 6. c. 43. (d) S.l. 19l2/t9l4 (t9l2 n. p. t732). (.) l2 & l3 V;CI. c. 63. --I 4. Any 1948 certificate v.hicb relates to a ship regIStered m a coun..,! H wblch tbe Safety Convention of 1960 does not for the lime being appl) shall be treated as if it were an accepted Convention certificate \\ Ithm the meaning of ule Acts so long as the certificate remams 10 force. Prm'lded that no such certificate shall be so treated after the 25th Ma)' 1966. 5. Any 1948 certificate wnich-(a) relates to a ship registered ID a country ID respect of which the Safety Convention of 1960 takes effect on a date later than the 26th May 1965 . and (b) IS ID force on such later date shall be treated. with effect from such later date and so tong as It remam� m force. as if it were an accepted Convention certificate \\ ithin the meanmg of the Acts. Roy Mason. Minister of State. Board of Trode. 11th May 1965. EXPLANA TOR Y I"OTE (This NOle is 1101 parI of 'he RegulalioH.r.) These Regulations provide that a country to which the lnternational Con­vention for the Safety of Life at Sea 1948 applies shall be treated up to and includtDg the 25th May 1966. for the purposes of the Merchant Shlppmg (Safety Convention) Act 1949 and the Merchant Shippmg Act 1964. as If it were a country to which the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 1960 applies. The Regulations also provide for the continued accept­ance for a limited time of certain certificates issued under the 1948 Con­vention In respect of ships nOl reglStered in the United Kmgdom as jf they had been issued under the 1960 Convenl1on Pnnted m Enal;md and pubw.hed by Hu MAJESTY'S STAIIOl'lolllY Of liCE: 196' lH.ll'P.Cl "-I. r (n l).tll) (K. ,7, It'll .s" � \ I 

The Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1965

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The Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1965

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