The Merchant Shipping (Closing of Openings in Enclosed Superstructures and in Bulkheads above the Bulkhead Deck) (Application to Non-United Kingdom ships) Regulations 1988

• Citation: S.I. 1988/642
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Citation, interpretation and application

These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Closing of Openings in Enclosed Superstructures and in Bulkheads above the Bulkhead Deck) (Application to Non-United Kingdom ships) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on the 7th day after the day on which they are made.

Section 2 Citation, interpretation and application

For the purpose of these Regulations “ro/ro passenger ship” has the same meaning as in the Merchant Shipping (Closing of Openings in Enclosed Superstructures and in Bulkheads above the Bulkhead Deck) Regulations 1988 .

Section 3 Citation, interpretation and application

The Merchant Shipping (Closing of Openings in Enclosed Superstructures and in Bulkheads above the Bulkhead Deck) Regulations 1988 (“the principal Regulations”) (which apply only to United Kingdom ro/ro passenger ships) shall, subject to regulations 4 and 5 of these Regulations, apply also to ro/ro passenger ships other than United Kingdom ships, while they are within a port in the United Kingdom.

Section 4 Citation, interpretation and application

The following regulations of the principal Regulations shall not apply to ro/ro passenger ships which are not United Kingdom ships:—

(a) regulation 4(2) and (3);

(b) regulation 6(b) to the extent that it relates to regulation 4(2);

(c) regulation 7(1) and (2) to the extent that it relates to any berth which is not situated within a port in the United Kingdom; and

(d) regulation 8(2).

Section 5 Citation, interpretation and application

Notwithstanding the requirements of regulation 3, regulations 6, 7, 8 and 9 of the principal Regulations shall not apply to any ro/ro passenger ship which is not a United Kingdom ship, by reason of her being within a port in the United Kingdom if she would not have been therein but for stress of weather or any other circumstance which could not have been prevented by the master or the owner or the charterer (if any).