# The Merchant Shipping (Indemnification of Shipowners) Order 1987, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order revokes, and replaces with an amendment, the Merchant Shipping (Indemnification of Shipowners) Order 1985, as amended.
The amendment (which appears in article 2(b) of the Order) is to include the amendments made in 1983 to the Safety of Life at Sea Convention 1974, among the Conventions with which a shipowner must comply if he is to get indemnification in the circumstances set out in article 5 of the Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage 1971.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/220/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-indemnification-of-shipowners-order-1987/note
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