The Fishing Vessels (Safety Provisions) (Amendment) Rules 1976

Made: 16th March 1976

Laid before Parliament: 24th March 1976

Coming into Operation: 15th April 1976

The Secretary of State, after consulting with the organisations referred to in section 7(2) of the Fishing Vessels (Safety Provisions) Act 1970, in exercise of powers conferred by section 1(1) and 2(1) of that Act and section 427 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 as substituted by section 2 of the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1949 and amended by section 9 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1964 and now vested in him[^f00001] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Rules:—

1

These Rules may be cited as the Fishing Vessels (Safety Provisions) (Amendment) Rules 1976 and shall come into operation on 15th April 1976.

2

The Fishing Vessels (Safety Provisions) Rules 1975[^f00002], as amended[^f00003], shall be further amended as follows:

• (1) In Rule 1(4)(c)(ii) after “Sea Fish Industry Act 1970” and in Rule 124 after “Sea Fish Industry Act 1970” respectively there shall be inserted “the Fishing Vessels (Grants) Act (Northern Ireland) 1967 or the Development Loans (Agriculture and Fisheries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1968.”

• (2) In Rule 14(2) for the equation “$R = 0.95 + (L - 30) ⁢0.9 (95)$”

Signed

Stanley Clinton Davis — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department of Trade — 16th March 1976

Explanatory note

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Rules further amend the Merchant Shipping (Fishing Vessels) (Safety Provisions) Rules 1975 by making a number of minor corrections and by making it clear that in Rule 56 (structural fire protection) the bulkheads of corridors serving accommodation spaces and the enclosures of interior stairways serving accommodation spaces, service spaces or control stations, shall be formed of non-combustible material capable of meeting a B. 15 standard fire test.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: See S.I. 1970/1537 (1970 III, p. 5293).

[^f00002]: (1975 I, p. 887).

[^f00003]: The amending instrument is not relevant.