The Merchant Shipping (Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims) (Overseas Territories) Order 1997
UK Statutory Instrument 1997 No. 2579 — creates 1 criminal offence.
- Made
- 30 October 1997
- In force from
- 30 November 1997
- Extent
- Not stated
- Subject
- Transport: maritime, aviation, rail and harbours
- Made under
- Her by section 315(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
This Order gives effect in Anguilla, the British Antarctic Territory, the British Indian Ocean Territory and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands to the Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976, which lays down uniform rules relating to the liability of shipowners and salvors in respect of certain maritime claims.
Offences created by this instrument
- Contravention of The Merchant Shipping (Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims) (Overseas Territories) Order 1997 the instrument as a whole · Status not determined · Strict liability
What Parliament said about it
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How Parliament handled it
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