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Make provision to oblige shipping companies, port operators and other bodies |
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to comply with recommendations made in reports of the Chief Inspector of |
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Marine Accidents and of the Marine Accident Investigation Branch; and for |
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Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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1 | Duty to comply with recommendations |
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(1) | The Merchant Shipping (Accident Reporting and Investigation) Regulations |
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2005 (SI 2005/881) are amended as follows. |
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(2) | At the end of regulation 18 (penalties) add— |
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“(4) If any person fails without reasonable cause to comply with any |
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recommendation made in accordance with regulation 15 within 12 months of |
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that recommendation being made, that person shall be guilty of an offence and |
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liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard |
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2 | Short title and commencement |
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(1) | This Act may be cited as the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (Reports) |
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(2) | This Act comes into force at the end of the period of 14 months beginning with |
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the day on which it is passed. |
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