Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 2198

The Merchant Shipping (Port State Control) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 1998

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     5. In regulation 2(2), for "M.1639" there shall be substituted "MSN 1725".

     6. For regulation 5(2) the following shall be substituted:

    " (2) In selecting ships for inspection the Maritime and Coastguard Agency shall give overriding priority to the ships referred to in Annex I, Part I of MSN 1725; and in determining the order of priority for inspection of the other ships listed in the said Annex I, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency shall use the ship's overall target factor referred to in Annex I, Part II."

     7. In regulation 15(1), for sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) there shall be substituted:

" (a) in the case of an authorised pilot, the port authority authorising the pilot, who shall immediately inform the Maritime and Coastguard Agency; or

(b) in the case of other pilots:


(i) the Maritime and Coastguard Agency; or

(ii) the competent authority of another member State,"

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State


Glenda Jackson
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

4th September 1998

[2] 1972 c. 68; by virtue of the amendment of section 1(2) of the European Communities Act by section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c. 5) regulations may be made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act to implement obligations of the United Kingdom created or arising by or under the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 and the Protocol adjusting the Agreement signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993 (Cm 2847).back

[3] S.I. 1995/3128, amended by S.I. 1998/1433.back

[4] OJ No. L 184, 27.6.98, p. 40.back