Board Passenger Ships) (Amendment) Regulations, 2003

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta, Nru. 17,503, 14 ta’ Novembru, 2003

L.N. 349 of 2003

MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT

(CAP. 234)

Merchant Shipping (Counting and Registration of Persons on

Board Passenger Ships) (Amendment) Regulations, 2003

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 103 and 374 of the

Merchant Shipping Act, the Minister for Transport and Communications

has made the following regulations>–

The title of these regulations is the Merchant Shipping Short title.

(Counting and Registration of Persons on Board Passenger Ships)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2003, and they shall be read and construed

as one with the Merchant Shipping (Counting and Registration of

Persons on Board Passenger Ships) Regulations, 2002, hereinafter L.N. 149 of 2002.

referred to as “the principal regulations”.

Regulation 2 of the principal regulations shall be amended as Amends regulation

2 of the principal

follows>–

regulations.

(a) the definition of “High Speed Craft” shall be substituted

by the following new definition>

“ “High Speed Craft” means a high speed craft as defined

in Regulation 1 of Chapter X of the Safety Convention,”< and

(b) the definition of “the Safety Convention” shall be

substituted by the following new definition>

“ “the Safety Convention” means “The International

Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea” signed in London

on 1st November, 1974 including any amendment or Protocol

related thereto as may from time to time be ratified, acceded

to or accepted by the Government of Malta and other

instruments, standards and specifications of a mandatory

nature related thereto adopted or developed by the

International Maritime Organisation.”.