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Revised Statute from The UK Statute Law Database

Merchant Shipping (Safety And Load Line Conventions) Act 1932 (c.9)

This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.

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Merchant Shipping (Safety And Load Line Conventions) Act 1932

1932 CHAPTER 9 22_and_23_Geo_5

Contents

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  1. Part I

    Safety of Life at Sea

    1. 1–4.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    2. 5. Amendments of Merchant Shipping Acts as to life-saving appliances

    3. Wireless Telegraphy

      1. 6, 7... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2. 8.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      3. 9.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      4. 10.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    4. Certificates

      1. 11.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2. 12.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      3. 13–21.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    5. Miscellaneous Provisions for further Safety of Life at Sea

      1. 22.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2. 23.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      3. 24.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      4. 25, 26... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      5. 27.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      6. 28.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      7. 29.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      8. 30.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      9. 31.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      10. 32.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    6. Supplemental

      1. 33–35.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2. 36.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      3. 37, 38... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      4. 39.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  2. Part II

    1. 40–61.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    2. Supplemental

      1. 62. Amendment of ss. 436 and 454 of the principal Act

      2. 63–67.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  3. Part III

    General

    1. 68.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    2. 69.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    3. 70–72.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    4. 73.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    5. 74.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  4. FIRST SCHEDULE

    International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1929

  5. SECOND SCHEDULE

  6. THIRD SCHEDULE

  7. FOURTH SCHEDULE

An Act to give effect to an International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, signed in London on the thirty-first day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, to give effect to an International Load Line Convention signed in London on the fifth day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty, and to amend the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1928, relating to passenger steamers life-saving appliances, wireless telegraphy, load lines, timber cargoes, and other matters affected by the said Conventions.

[17th March 1932]

Whereas a Convention (in this Act referred to as “the Safety Convention”) which is set out in the First Schedule to this Act, was signed on behalf of the Government of the United Kingdom in London on the thirty-first day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, for promoting safety of life at sea by establishing in common agreement uniform principles and rules directed thereto:

And whereas a Convention (in this Act referred to as “the Load Line Convention”) which is set out in the Second Schedule to this Act, was signed on behalf of the Government of the United Kingdom in London on the fifth day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty, for promoting safety of life and property at sea, by establishing in common agreement uniform principles and rules with regard to the limits to which ships on international voyages may be loaded:

And whereas it is expedient to give effect to the said Conventions and to amend the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1928, relating to passenger steamers, life-saving appliances, wireless telegraphy, load lines, timber cargoes and other matters affected by the said Conventions:

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Functions of the Board of Trade under this Act became exercisable concurrently by the Secretary of State: S.I. 1970/1537, art. 2; ceased to be exercisable by the Board of Trade: S.I. 1983/1127, art. 2(4)

C2Act amended by S.I. 1983/708, regs. 1(3)(4)(b), 2

C3Act modified by Merchant Shipping Act 1988 (c. 12, SIF 111), s. 47(2)(b), (with s. 58(4), Sch. 8 para. 1) and by S.I. 1989/1991, art. 10

C4Act excluded by S.I. 1989/1991, arts. 11–14

Commencement Information

I1Act partly in force at Royal Assent, Act wholly in force at 1.1.1933 by 1932/917

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