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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1Amendments of Merchant Shipping Act 1995 relating to inspection and detention of ships

Meaning of “dangerously unsafe ship”

1(1)Section 94 of the 1995 Act (meaning of “dangerously unsafe ship”) is amended as follows.

(2)In subsection (1), after “ship”, where first occurring, there is inserted “in port”.

(3)After subsection (1) there is inserted—

(1A)For the purposes of those sections a ship at sea is “dangerously unsafe” if, having regard to the nature of the service for which it is being used or is intended, the ship is, by reason of the matters mentioned in subsection (2) below, either—

(a)unfit to remain at sea without serious danger to human life, or

(b)unfit to go on a voyage without serious danger to human life.