
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Property of Deceased Seamen and Official Log Books) (Amendment) Regulations 1983 and shall come into operation on 1st April 1984.
2 
The Merchant Shipping (Property of Deceased Seamen) Regulations 1972 are hereby revoked.
3 
The Merchant Shipping (Official Log Books) Regulations 1981 and the Merchant Shipping (Official Log Books) (Fishing Vessels) Regulations 1981 shall both be amended:
(a) by the deletion in both of the definition of “the Property Regulations” in regulation 1(2); and
(b) by the deletion of paragraph 36(b) to (e) in column 1 of the Schedule to the Merchant Shipping (Official Log Books) Regulations 1981 and of paragraph 30(b) to (e) in column 1 of the Schedule to the Merchant Shipping (Official Log Books) (Fishing Vessels) Regulations 1981 and the substitution for both deletions of the following—“
(b) each item of such property ”
Nicholas Ridley
Secretary of State for Transport
5th December 1983