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MERCHANT SHIPPING

SAFETY

Made 24th January 1989

Laid before Parliament 8th February 1989

Coming into force 1st March 1989

Whereas insofar as these Regulations are made under section 21(1)(b) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979^f1 they relate to an international agreement laid before Parliament before 4th April 1979, namely the Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) Convention 1976 (International Labour Organisation Convention 147)^f2, which was laid before Parliament on 24th April 1978 and ratified by the United Kingdom on 28th November 1980 and is in force internationally and which requires provisions to be made substantially equivalent to those of (amongst other Conventions) the Food and Catering (Ships' Crews) Convention 1946 (International Labour Organisation Convention 68)^f3 which is in force and has been ratified by the United Kingdom:

Now, therefore the Secretary of State for Transport, after consultation with the persons referred to in section 22(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 21(1)(a) and (b), (3), (5), and (6) and by section 22(1) and (3) of that Act and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

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Footnotes

f1: 1979 c. 39; section 21(6) was amended by the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48), section 49(3), and section 9 was amended by the Safety at Sea Act 1986 (c. 23), section 11.
f2: Cmnd 7163.
f3: Cmnd 7273.