UK Offence Report

The Merchant Shipping (BCH Code) Regulations 1987

UK Statutory Instrument 1987 No. 550 — creates 3 criminal offences.

3offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
26 March 1987
In force from
6 April 1987
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Health and safety, environment, waste and fisheries

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulation) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations require chemical tankers which carry noxious liquid substances of Category A, B or C in bulk and which were built before 1st July 1986, to comply with the Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk which was adopted by the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the International Maritime Organization on 5th December 1985. The Regulations give effect to regulation 13(3) of Annex II to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as set out in the amendments to that Annex which were adopted by the Marine Environment Protection Committee on the same date as the Code. Annex II comes into force internationally on 6th April 1987. Copies of the Code as adopted, and of the earlier editions which are referred to in it, are obtainable from the International Maritime Organization, 4 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7SR.

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