Paragraph 9 Amendments to the Navigational Equipment RegulationsI1

at the beginning of the paragraph there shall be inserted the words “Subject to regulation 5(1) of the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) Regulations 2000 (which relates to ships with Passenger Certificates of Classes II(A), III, VI and VI(A) which are 24 metres or over in length and are existing ships, engaged on domestic voyages, for the purposes of that Regulation),”;

for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph:

“(b)

United Kingdom passenger ships other than:

(i)

ships having a Passenger Certificate of Class V, and

(ii)

ships of Classes A, B, C or D as defined in the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) Regulations 2000 which are new ships, engaged on domestic voyages, for the purposes of those Regulations; and”; and

in sub-paragraph (c), after the words “150 tons or over” there shall be inserted the words “, other than ships of Classes A, B, C or D as defined in the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) Regulations 2000 which are new ships, engaged on domestic voyages, for the purposes of those Regulations,”.