Citation and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as The Docks, Shipbuilding etc. (Metrication) Regulations 1983 and shall come into operation on the 1st June 1983.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, “the principal instruments” means the Regulations and Orders amended by these Regulations, that is to say:—

• The Docks Regulations 1925;

• The Docks Regulations 1934;

• The Shipbuilding and Ship-repairing Regulations 1960;

• The Shipbuilding (Lifting Appliances etc. Forms) Order 1961(2);

• The Docks Certificates (No. 2) Order 1964.

Amendments to the principal instruments to substitute metric measurements for imperial measurements

2.  The provisions of the principal instruments specified in the Schedule to these Regulations in Column 1 shall be amended by substituting for the measurements or expressions set out opposite thereto in column 3 the measurements or expressions set out in the corresponding entry in column 4.

Application to existing premises and plant

3.  Where any premises or plant, in existence or under construction immediately before the coming into operation of these Regulations complied with the requirements of the principal Regulations as then in force, then those premises or that plant shall be deemed to comply with the requirements of the principal Regulations as amended by these Regulations.

Regulation 2

THE SCHEDULEAMENDMENTS TO PROVISIONS

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the following instruments:—

• The Docks Regulations 1925;

• The Docks Regulations 1934;

• The Shipbuilding and Ship-repairing Regulations 1960;

• The Shipbuilding (Lifting Appliances etc. Forms) Order 1961; and

• The Docks Certificates (No. 2) Order 1964,

by substituting amounts or quantities expressed in metric units for amounts or quantities not so expressed. The substituted amounts preserve the effect of the original provisions except to the extent necessary to obtain amounts expressed in convenient and suitable terms.

Regulation 3 provides that the amendments do not relate to premises or plant in existence or under construction immediately before the coming into operation of these Regulations if those premises or that plant complied with the then existing requirements.