# The Merchant Shipping (Navigation Bridge Visibility) Regulations 1998, Regulation 3: Amendment of Regulations


The Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships of Classes IV, V, VI and VI(A)—Bridge Visibility) Regulations 1992 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”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1419/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-navigation-bridge-visibility-regulations-1998/regulation-3
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