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Merchant Shipping Act 1974 (c.43)

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 It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.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 Act 1974

1974 CHAPTER 43

Contents

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  1. Part I

    The International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund

    1. 1.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    2. Contributions to Fund

      1. 2.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2. 3.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    3. Compensation for persons suffering pollution damage

      1. 4.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    4. Indemnification of shipowners

      1. 5.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    5. Supplemental

      1. 6.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2. 7.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      3. 8.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      4. 9.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  2. Part II

    1. 10–13.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  3. Part III

    Protection of Shipping and Trading Interests

    1. 14.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    2. 15.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  4. Part IV

    Submersible Apparatus

    1. 16.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    2. 17.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  5. Part V

    Miscellaneous and Supplemental

    1. 18.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    2. 19. Offences by seamen

    3. Supplemental

      1. 20.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2. 21.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      3. 22.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      4. 23.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      5. 24.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  6. SCHEDULE 1

  7. SCHEDULES 2, 3

    . .

  8. SCHEDULE 4

  9. SCHEDULE 5

An Act to make further provision concerning oil pollution by ships and related matters; to give power to protect shipping and trading interests against foreign action concerning or affecting carriage of goods by sea; to make provision relating to the operation of submersible apparatus; to alter the constitution of the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses; and to amend certain provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970 relating to offences committed by seamen.

[31st July 1974]

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Act 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

Act: power to modify conferred (prosp.) by 1994 c. 28, ss. 5(3)(a), 10(4) (which amending Act was repealed (1.1.1996) by 1995 c. 21, s. 314(1), Sch.)

C2Act excluded by S.I. 1989/1991, arts. 11–14