Shipping (Distress
Signals and Prevention of Collisions) (Jersey) Order 2004
Official
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Shipping (Distress
Signals and Prevention of Collisions) (Jersey) Order 2004
1 UK
Merchant Shipping (Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions) Regulations 1996
to apply in Jersey
(1) The Merchant Shipping
(Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions) Regulations 1996 of the
United Kingdom, as from time to time in force in the United Kingdom, shall
apply to Jersey as part of the law of Jersey.
(2) They shall apply as
if –
(a) in regulation
1(1) “and, subject to paragraph (2) below, shall come into force on
1st May 1996” were omitted;
(b) regulation
1(2), (4) and (8) were omitted;
(c) in regulation
1(5) for “the United Kingdom” there were substituted
“Jersey”;
(d) for regulation
2(1) there were substituted the following paragraph –
“(1) These Regulations apply to
the following vessels –
(a) Jersey ships wherever they may be, and other
ships while within Jersey territorial waters; and
(b) seaplanes on the surface of water in Jersey
or the territorial waters thereof.”;
(e) in regulation 5
for “Secretary of State” there were substituted “Minister for
Sustainable Economic Development”;
(f) for
regulation 6(1) there were substituted the following paragraph –
“(1) Where any of
these Regulations is contravened, the owner of the vessel, the master and any
person for the time being responsible for the conduct of the vessel shall each
be guilty of an offence punishable by a fine.”;
(g) for regulation
7 there were substituted the following regulation –
“7. In any
case where a ship does not comply with the requirements of these Regulations,
the ship shall be liable to be detained and Article 177 of the Shipping (Jersey) Law 2002 (which relates to the detention of a ship) shall have effect in
relation to the ship, subject to the modification that as if for the words
‘this Law’ wherever they appear, there were substituted ‘the Merchant Shipping (Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions)
Regulations 1996 of the United Kingdom as they apply to Jersey’.”.[1]
2 Citation
This Order may be cited as the Shipping (Distress Signals and
Prevention of Collisions) (Jersey) Order 2004.