Merchant Shipping (Ship Inspection and Survey Organisations)

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta, Nru. 19,410, 14 ta’ April, 2015

L.N. 133 of 2015

MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT

(CAP. 234)

Merchant Shipping (Ship Inspection and Survey Organisations)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2015

In exercise of the powers conferred by articles 367 and 374 of

the Merchant Shipping Act, the Minister for Transport and

Infrastructure has made the following regulations:-

(1)

The title of these regulations is the Merchant Citation.

Shipping (Ship Inspection and Survey Organisations) (Amendment)

Regulations, 2015 and these regulations shall be read and construed

as one with the Merchant Shipping (Ship Inspection and Survey

Organisations) Regulations, hereinafter referred to as the "principal S.L. 234.37

regulations".

(2) These regulations adopt the measures contained in

Commission Implementing Directive 2014/111/EU of 17 December

2014 amending Directive 2009/15/EC with regard to the adoption by

the International Maritime Organization (IMO) of certain Codes and

related amendments to certain conventions and protocols.

(1)

Regulation 2 of the principal regulations shall be Amends

regulation 2 of

amended as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a)

the definition "international conventions" shall be

deleted; and

(b)

the present provision regulation 2 shall be

renumbered as sub-regulation (1) and immediately after the

definition "rules and procedures" there shall be added the

following sub-regulation

"(2) Unless otherwise defined in the Act or in

these regulations, or unless the context so requires, words

and expressions used in these regulations shall have the

same meaning assigned to them in Directive 2009/15/EC,

in its up-to-date version.".

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