3 Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction: Ships of Classes III to VI(A)) Regulations 1998
The Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction: Ships of Classes III to VI(A)) Regulations 1998 shall be amended as follows—
(a) in regulation 51(3), for “one propeller” there shall be substituted “ one or more propellers”;
(b) at the end of regulation 60, after “Schedule 9” there shall be added “ in Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1698(M)”;
(c) in regulation 62(1)(d), for “(published 1978)” there shall be substituted “ (published 1990)”;
(d) after regulation 73(2) there shall be inserted—

“2A If any officer appointed in accordance with regulation 23(1) reports to the master or other officer in charge of the bridge a door to be closed and locked when it is not in fact closed and locked he shall be guilty of an offence, punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or, on conviction on indictment, by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years and a fine.”

; and
(e) in regulation 73(3), for “level three on the standard scale” there shall be substituted “the statutory maximum”.
S.I.1998/2515, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations. By virtue of regulation 5(1)(a) of the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) Regulations 2000 (S.I.2000/2687) S.I.1998/2515 ceases to apply to certain types of passenger ship of 24 metres or over in length engaged in certain domestic voyages from dates specified in regulation 4 of S.I.2000/2687.