Regulation 3 Amendment of Regulations

The Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships of Classes IV, V, VI and VI(A)—Bridge Visibility) Regulations 1992^f1 shall be amended as follows:

(i)

in regulation 1(2) after the definition of `existing ship' the following definition shall be inserted:

““length” means 96 per cent. of the total length on a waterline at 85 per cent. of the least moulded depth measured from the top of the keel, or the length from the fore-side of the stem to the axis of the rudder stock on that waterline, if that be greater. In ships designed with a rake of keel the waterline on which this is measured shall be parallel to the designed waterline;”;

(ii)

in regulation 1(2) the phrase “ships length” and its definition shall be omitted; and

(iii)

regulation 1(3), before the word “operating”, there shall be inserted the words “of less than 45 metres in length”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1992/2357.