Part II Provisions having effect in connection with Convention
Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (1995 c 21) | Legislation

Part II Provisions having effect in connection with Convention

Interpretation

1

In this Part of this Schedule any reference to a numbered article is a reference to the article of the Convention which is so numbered.

Right to limit liability

2

[Subject to paragraph 6 below,] The right to limit liability under the Convention shall apply in relation to any ship whether seagoing or not, and the definition of “shipowner†in paragraph 2 of article l shall be construed accordingly.

Claims subject to limitation

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3

(1)     Paragraph 1(d) of article 2 shall not apply unless provision has been made by an order of the Secretary of State for the setting up and management of a fund to be used for the making to harbour or conservancy authorities of payments needed to compensate them for the reduction, in consequence of the said paragraph 1(d), of amounts recoverable by them in claims of the kind there mentioned, and to be maintained by contributions from such authorities raised and collected by them in respect of vessels in like manner as other sums so raised by them.

(2)     Any order under sub-paragraph (1) above may contain such incidental

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