The Merchant Shipping (Safety Officials and Reporting of Accidents and Dangerous Occurrences) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

• Citation: S.I. 1994/2014
• Sections: 2

Section 1

These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Safety Officials and Reporting of Accidents and Dangerous Occurrences) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 26th August 1994.

Section 2

The Merchant Shipping (Safety Officials and Reporting of Accidents and Dangerous Occurrences) Regulations 1982 are hereby further amended as follows:

(a) in regulation 1(2):

(i) for the definition of “dangerous occurrence” there shall be substituted: “dangerous occurrence has the meaning given to it in the schedule to the Merchant Shipping (Accident Reporting and Investigation) Regulations 1994 ”

(ii) the definition of “major injury” shall be omitted;

(b) for regulation 5(1)(a) there shall be substituted “every accident resulting in death, or in major or serious injury as defined in the Merchant Shipping (“Accident Reporting and Investigation”) Regulations 1994”;

(c) regulations 9, 10 and 11 shall be omitted;

(d) regulation 12(1)(c) shall be omitted;

(e) in regulation 12(2) “, and” in sub-paragraph (a), and sub-paragraph (b), shall be omitted; and

(f) the Schedule shall be omitted.