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This Order applies, with the necessary modifications, the Merchant Shipping Act 1970 to the Cayman Islands. This has the effect, principally, of repealing Part II of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 (c. 60) as it applies there, and replacing the repealed provisions with those of the 1970 Act so as to bring the territory’s law concerning masters and seamen more closely into line with the law in the United Kingdom and so as to enable effect to be given in the Cayman Islands to the International Convention on Tonnage Measurements of Ships, 1969 (Cmnd. 4332).