Regulation 3 Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction: Ships of Classes III to VI(A)) Regulations 1998

in regulation 51(3), for “one propeller” there shall be substituted “ one or more propellers”;

at the end of regulation 60, after “Schedule 9” there shall be added “ in Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1698(M)”;

in regulation 62(1)(d), for “(published 1978)” there shall be substituted “ (published 1990)”;

after regulation 73(2) there shall be inserted—

“(2A)

If any officer appointed in accordance with regulation 23(1) reports to the master or other officer in charge of the bridge a door to be closed and locked when it is not in fact closed and locked he shall be guilty of an offence, punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or, on conviction on indictment, by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years and a fine.”; and

in regulation 73(3), for “level three on the standard scale” there shall be substituted “the statutory maximum”.