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These Regulations amend two earlier instruments to correct defects, and are being issued free of charge to all known recipients of those instruments.

Regulation 2 amends the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction: Ships of Classes I, II and II(A)) Regulations 1998 to correct a reference to a published code of practice, clarify the offence in regulation 91(5) and alter the penalty for contravention of regulation 42(1).

Regulation 3 amends the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction: Ships of Classes III to VI(A)) Regulations 1998 to alter a manoeuvring requirement, clarify a reference to a Merchant Shipping Notice, correct a reference to a published code of practice, create an offence where a door is reported closed and locked but is not closed and locked, and alter the penalty for contravention of regulation 34(4)(a) of those Regulations.