The Merchant Shipping (Delegation of Type Approval) Regulations 1996

Made: 29th January 1996

Laid before Parliament: 6th February 1996

Coming into force: 1st March 1996

and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation, commencement and interpretation

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Delegation of Type Approval) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 1st March 1996.

• (2) In these Regulations:

• (i) “the Act” means the Merchant Shipping Act 1995;

• (ii) “Merchant Shipping Notice” means a Notice described as such, issued by the Marine Safety Agency of the Department of Transport; and

• (iii) reference to Merchant Shipping Notice M 1645 includes reference to any Merchant Shipping Notice amending or replacing that Notice which is considered by the Secretary of State to be relevant from time to time.

Delegation of type approval

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• (1)

• (a) Notwithstanding any provision (howsoever worded) in any regulations:

• (i) having effect as if made under section 85(1)(a) or (b) of the Act; or

• (ii) made under the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Oil Pollution) Order 1983,

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Goschen — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — 29th January 1996

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations enable certain bodies specified in a Merchant Shipping Notice to give type approval of safety equipment and arrangements for ships under regulations having effect as if made under section 85(1)(a) and (b) (being certain equipment or arrangements prescribed under the Safety of Life at Sea Convention 1974 as amended, or the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea 1972 as amended), and under regulations made under the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Oil Pollution) Order 1983 (equipment prescribed under Annex 1 to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships 1973 (as amended).

Approval of types of equipment and arrangements which was formerly given by the Secretary of State may in future be given by persons specified in a Merchant Shipping Notice in relation to the equipment or arrangements.

Merchant Shipping Notices may be obtained from the Marine Safety Agency, Spring Place, 105 Commercial Road, Southampton, SO15 1EG and from any Marine Office of the Marine Safety Agency.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1995 c. 21.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1983/1106, amended by S.I. 1985/2002 and S.I. 1991/2885.