The Merchant Shipping (Training, Certification and Safe Manning) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

• Citation: S.I. 1997/1911
• Sections: 3

Section 1

These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Training, Certification and Safe Manning) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st September 1997.

Section 2

The Merchant Shipping (Training and Certification) Regulations 1997 shall be amended as follows—

(a) in regulation 2(1), after the definition of “IGC Code” the following definition shall be inserted:—

“length” has the same meaning as in the Merchant Shipping (Tonnage) Regulations 1997

(b) at the end of regulation 3(b), there shall be added “and which are less than 80 GT or under 24 metres in length”; and

(c) in regulation 5(4)(b), after “adaptation period” there shall be inserted “not exceeding 3 years”.

Section 3

The Merchant Shipping (Safe Manning, Hours of Work and Watchkeeping) Regulations 1997 shall be amended as follows—

(a) in regulation 2(1), after the definition of “hazardous cargo” the following definition shall be inserted:

“length” has the same meaning as in the Merchant Shipping (Tonnage) Regulations 1997

(b) at the end of regulation 3(b)(ii), there shall be added “and which are less than 80 GT or under 24 metres in length”;

(c) in regulation 16(1)(b)(ii), for the first reference to “15(2)” there shall be substituted “15(3)”;

(d) in regulation 17—

(i) in paragraph (1), for “9(1), (2), (8) or (10)” there shall be substituted “9”;

(ii) in paragraph (2), for “4(b)” there shall be substituted “4(6)”; and

(iii) after paragraph (2), there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—

(2A) Where an employer has pursuant to regulation 9(3) become subject to the duties of the company under that regulation, any contravention of regulation 9 by the employer shall be an offence, punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or on indictment by a fine, or (in the case of an individual) by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both.