The Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Medical Stores) (Amendment) Regulations 1996

Made: 5th November 1996

Laid before Parliament: 14th November 1996

Coming into force: 5th December 1996

Now therefore the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by: the said section 2(2); sections 85(1)(a) and (3) and (5) to (7) and 86(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995; section 103(3) of the Medicines Act 1968[^f00004]; and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

the said section 2(2);

sections 85(1)(a) and (3) and (5) to (7) and 86(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995;

section 103(3) of the Medicines Act 1968[^f00004];

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Medical Stores) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 5th December 1996.

Amendment of 1995 Regulations

2

In the Table in regulation 4(1) of the Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Medical Stores) Regulations 1995[^f00005] for the words “no more than 30 nautical miles from” in Column 1, entry 3 there shall be substituted the words “very close to”.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Goschen — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — 5th November 1996

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Medical Stores) Regulations 1995. The amendment adopts the wording of Council Directive 92/29/EEC of 31st March 1992 (O.J. No. L113, 30.4.92, p. 19), which the 1995 Regulations implement, in defining the area of operation for vessels carrying category C stores as “very close to shore”.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1993/595.

[^f00002]: 1972 c. 68.

[^f00003]: 1995 c. 21.

[^f00004]: 1968 c. 67.

[^f00005]: S.I. 1995/1802.