
1 
This Order may be cited as the Collision Regulations (Seaplanes) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 19th November 1989: Provided that it shall not come into operation in relation to any seaplane until noon on that date by the zone time in the area in which the seaplane is situated.
2 
This Order shall apply to seaplanes on the surface of the water which are registered in the United Kingdom wherever they may be and to other seaplanes on the surface of the water while they are within the United Kingdom or the territorial waters thereof.
3 
The Collision Rules (Seaplanes) Order 1983 is hereby revoked.
4 
The following provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions) Regulations 1989, namely –
(a) Regulation 1(2) (Interpretation) with the modifications specified in the Schedule hereto, and
(b) the International Regulations set out in the Schedule thereto with the exception of Annex IV thereof (distress signals)shall have effect as the Collision Regulations in relation to seaplanes to which this Order applies for the purposes of sections 418, 419 and 421 of the 1894 Act as extended by the 1982 Act.
G. I. de Deney
Clerk of the Privy Council.

SCHEDULE
Article 4
1 
In paragraph (a) the definition of “date of entry into force of these Regulations” shall be replaced by the following:
“date of entry into force of these Regulations” in Rule 38 (exemptions) of the International Regulations means –
(i) in the case of seaplanes registered in the United Kingdom, 15th July 1977, and
(ii) in the case of seaplanes registered outside the United Kingdom, the date of entry into force of the International Regulations for the State in which the seaplane is registered;.
2 
In paragraph (a) the definitions of “Merchant Shipping Notice” and “United Kingdom vessel” shall be deleted.
3. In pararaph (b), sub-paragraph (i), after the words “Admiralty Notice to Mariners No. 17” there shall be inserted the words “of 1989”.
4 
In paragraph (b), sub-paragraph (ii) and the proviso shall be deleted.
5 
Paragraph (d) shall be deleted.