The Merchant Shipping (Medical Stores) (Amendment) Regulations 1988

• Citation: S.I. 1988/1116
• Sections: 2

Section 1

These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Medical Stores) (Amendment) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 28th July 1988.

Section 2

The Merchant Shipping (Medical Stores) Regulations 1986 shall be amended as follows—

(1) In regulation 1(3) there shall be inserted in the appropriate places the following definitions—

“Class VI or VIA passenger vessels” means vessels when operating as vessels of those Classes within the meaning of the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction and Survey) Regulations 1984 ;

“ IMDG Code” means the 1988 edition of the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code published by the International Maritime Organization;

(2) All references in regulation 1(6), 5, 6(3), 7(1) and 8 to “Merchant Shipping Notice No. 1200” shall be replaced by references to “Merchant Shipping Notice No. 1319”.

(3) In regulation 3(2),

(a) for “entry 6 of column 1” there shall be substituted “entry 7 of column 1”;

(b) for “the Chemicals Supplement to the Ship Captain’s Medical Guide (published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office)” there shall be substituted “the International Maritime Organization Medical First Aid Guide for use in Accidents Involving Dangerous Goods (1985 edition) (published by the International Maritime Organization)”.

(4) For the table in regulation 3 the following shall be substituted—

(5) In regulation 7(2), after “Ship Captain’s Medical Guide” there shall be inserted “(published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office)”.