
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Safety Officials and Reporting of Accidents and Dangerous Occurrences) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 26th August 1994.
2 
The Merchant Shipping (Safety Officials and Reporting of Accidents and Dangerous Occurrences) Regulations 1982are hereby further amended as follows:
(a) in regulation 1(2):
(i) for the definition of “dangerous occurrence” there shall be substituted: “dangerous occurrence has the meaning given to it in the schedule to the Merchant Shipping (Accident Reporting and Investigation) Regulations 1994”
(ii) the definition of “major injury” shall be omitted;
(b) for regulation 5(1)(a) there shall be substituted “every accident resulting in death, or in major or serious injury as defined in the Merchant Shipping (“Accident Reporting and Investigation”) Regulations 1994”;
(c) regulations 9, 10 and 11 shall be omitted;
(d) regulation 12(1)(c) shall be omitted;
(e) in regulation 12(2) “, and” in sub-paragraph (a), and sub-paragraph (b), shall be omitted; and
(f) the Schedule shall be omitted.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Goschen
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, 
Department of Transport
28th July 1994 