Merchant Shipping Act 1894
Saving for local rules of navigation in harbours, &c.
421.—(1) Any rules made before or after the passing of this Act under the authority of any local Act, concerning lights and signals to be carried, or the steps for avoiding collision to be taken, by vessels navigating the waters of any harbour, river, or other inland navigation, shall, notwithstanding anything in this Act, have full effect.
(2) Where any such rules are not and cannot be made, Her Majesty in Council on the application of any person having authority over such waters, or, if there is no such person, any person interested in the navigation thereof, may make such rules, and those rules shall, as regards vessels navigating the said waters, be of the same force as if they were part of the collision regulations.
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Application of section extended (1.08.1936) by Air Navigation and Transport Act 1936 (40/1936), s. 58(1), commenced on enactment.
Application to seaplanes of certain provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts, relating to collisions at sea and signals of distress.
58. (1) The power conferred by sub-section (1) of section 418 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, to make regulations for the prevention of collisions at sea shall include power to make regulations for the prevention of collisions at sea—
(a) between seaplanes on the surface of the water, and
(b) between vessels and seaplanes on the surface of the water;and accordingly the said section 418, and sections 419, 421 and 424 of the said Act, as amended by any subsequent enactment, shall apply in relation to seaplanes on the surface of the water as they apply in relation to ships or vessels, subject however to the following modifications, that is to say:—
(i) for the purpose of sub-section (2) of the said section 418, and for the purposes of the said section 424, sections 418, 419, 421, and 424 of the said Act shall be deemed to be the only provisions of Part V of the said Act relating to collision regulations or otherwise relating to collisions, and
(ii) any references in the said section 419 to the master or to the person in charge of the deck shall be construed as references to the pilot or other person on duty in charge of the seaplane.
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Editorial Notes:
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Previous affecting provision: application of subs. (2) extended (1.08.1897) by Mersey Channels Act 1897 (60 & 61 Vict.) c. 21, s. 2; repealed (8.05.2007) Statute Law Revision Act 2007 (28/2007), ss. 2(1), 3(1) and sch. 2 part 4, commenced on enactment.