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Statutory Instrument 1989 No. 2400

The Merchant Shipping Act 1979 (Overseas Territories) Order 1989

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1989 No. 2400

MERCHANT SHIPPING

The Merchant Shipping Act 1979 (Overseas Territories) Order 1989

Made19th December 1989
Laid before Parliament8th January 1990
Coming into force30th January 1990

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 19th day of December 1989

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

    Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 47(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 [1], is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:
        1.    This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 (Overseas Territories) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 30th January 1990.
        2.    Sections 21 and 22 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 and the Merchant Shipping (Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions) Regulations 1989 [2]in force thereunder are hereby extended to the territories specified in Schedule 1 to this Order (any one of which is in this Order refered to as "the Territory"), as part of the law thereof, subject to the modifications specified in Schedules 2 and 3 to this Order.
        3.    Save as may be expressly provided otherwise therein, any reference in Schedules 2 and 3 to this Order to any enactment of the United Kingdom shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as applying or extended to the Territory.
        4.    The Merchant Shipping (Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions) (Overseas Territories) Order 1983 [3]and the Merchant Shipping (Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions) (Overseas Territories) (Amendment) Order 1984 [4] are hereby revoked save that regulations 1(3 and 4(b) of the Merchant Shipping (Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions) Regulations 1983 [5] as extended to the Territory by those Orders shall continue to apply to the Territory.



G I de Deney

Clerk of the Privy Council

          




Notes:

[1] 1979 c. 39

[2] S.I. 1989/1798

[3] S.I. 1983/762

[4] S.I. 1984/1688

[5] S.I. 1983/708

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