Article 3 Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Ministry of Defence Ships) Order 1989

Article 3 (interpretation) of the Merchant Shipping (Ministry of Defence Ships) Order 1989^f1 shall be amended as follows.

In the definition of “Ministry of Defence ship” after the words “other than a Ministry of Defence yacht” there shall be inserted the words “or a Ministry of Defence commercially managed ship”.

After the definition of “Ministry of Defence yacht” there shall be inserted the following definition—

• ““Ministry of Defence commercially managed ship” means a Government ship in the service of the Ministry of Defence, the management of which is entrusted by the Secretary of State to some other person pursuant to a contract;”.