Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006

Chapter 7

Maritime Safety

Amendment of Maritime Safety Act 2005.

104.— The Maritime Safety Act 2005 is amended—

(a) in section 2(1), by substituting “Part 3 of the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006” for “the Maritime Jurisdiction Act 1959 (as amended by the Maritime Jurisdiction (Amendment) Act 1988 )”,

(b) in section 17(1), by substituting “Part” for “Act”,

(c) in section 36(1)(a), by substituting “any of the matters referred to in section 35(1)” for “the safe operation, or any of the matters referred to in subsection (1)”,

(d) in section 38—

(i) in subsection (1), by substituting the following paragraphs for paragraph (c):

“(c) securing safe navigable routes,

(cc) securing that search and rescue and search and recovery operations can be conducted safely, or”,

and

(ii) in subsection (3), by substituting the following paragraph for paragraph (d):

“(d) the temporary prevention of or restriction on the navigation of vessels within a specified area or specified areas, or the establishment and maintenance of a temporary exclusion zone around a vessel, structure or other thing that is sunk, wrecked, damaged or in distress, for the purposes of allowing any directions or actions under this section to be carried out safely, and”,

and

(e) in section 46(2), by substituting “sections 23, 24, 37 and 38” for “sections 23 and 24”.