SupplementalU.K.

F147. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .U.K.

The enactments and instruments with respect to which provision may be made by Order in Council in pursuance of section 1(1)(h) of the M1Hovercraft Act 1968 shall include this Act and any instrument made under it.

(2)Section 738 of the M2Merchant Shipping Act 1894 (which among other things provides for the publication in the London Gazette, the laying before Parliament and the alteration and revocation of Orders in Council made under that Act or any Act amending that Act) shall not apply to an Order in Council made under this Act.

(3)No order shall be made in pursuance of section 3(1), 4(2), 8(5), 10(3) or 34(3) of this Act . . . F2 unless a draft of the order . . . F2 has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

(4)Any statutory instrument containing an order made by virtue of section 2(3), 41(1) or 43(4) of this Act or paragraph 11 of Part II of Schedule 3 or paragraph 3 or 5 of Part II of Schedule 4 to this Act or containing regulations made by virtue of section 11(2)(a), . . . F3, 22(3), 23(1), 25(4) or 30(2) of this Act . . . F3 shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution by either House of Parliament.

[F4(4A)[F5Except where subsection (4B) of this section applies,] Regulations of the following descriptions under section 21(1) of this Act shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament—

(a)regulations under paragraph (a) of that subsection,

(b)regulations under paragraph (b) of that subsection which—

(i)relate to an international agreement laid before Parliament before 4th April 1979, or

(ii)relate to safety matters and give effect to amendments in force to an international agreement already implemented under that paragraph, and

(c)regulations under paragraph (c) of that subsection which contain a statement that they are made only for the purpose of applying to certain other ships the provisions of an international agreement implemented under paragraph (b) of that subsection;

and regulations of any other description under section 21(1) of this Act shall not be made unless a draft of the regulations has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.]

[F6(4B)Regulations falling within paragraphs (a) to (c) of subsection (4A) of this section, if contained in the same instrument as any regulations requiring to be approved in draft by virtue of that subsection, shall also require to be so approved.]

(5)Any statutory instrument containing an order made by virtue of paragraph 8(1) of Part II of Schedule 4 to this Act shall be laid before Parliament after being made.

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• “contravention” includes failure to comply;

• “functions” includes powers and duties;

• “the Merchant Shipping Acts” means the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1977 . . . F8 and, except in sections 22(3)(a) and 37(5) of this Act and the preceding subsection, this Act; and

• “modifications” includes additions, omissions and alterations, and related expressions shall be construed accordingly.

(3)Section 4 of the M3Aliens restriction (Amendment) Act 1919 (which prohibits an alien from holding a pilotage certificate for a pilotage district in the United Kingdom except in certain cases) shall cease to have effect.

(4)The enactments mentioned in the first and second columns of Schedule 7 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .; but nothing in Part I of that Schedule shall affect the operation of any enactment in relation to such an occurrence as mentioned in section 19(4) of this Act.