
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Port State Control) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 31st July 2001.
2 
The Merchant Shipping (Port State Control) Regulations 1995 shall be further amended as follows.
3 
In regulation 2(1) after “Commission Directive 98/42” there shall be inserted the words “and by Commission Directive 1999/97/EC”.
4 
In regulation 2(2)—
(a) in the definition of “Conventions” for the words “in force at 1 July 1998” there shall be substituted the words “in force at 1 July 1999”; and
(b) in the definition of “MOU” for the words “as it stands on 14 January 1998” there shall be substituted the words “as it stands on 1 July 1999”.
5 
In regulation 7—
(a) before the first word of paragraph (1) there shall be inserted “Subject to paragraph (4) below”, and
(b) after paragraph (3) there shall be inserted:“
(4) This regulation shall not apply to a vessel which to the satisfaction of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency has within the previous 12 months been subject to an initial specific survey in accordance with Article 6 of Council Directive 1999/35/EC on a system of mandatory surveys for the safe operation of regular ro-ro ferry and high-speed passenger craft services or a specific survey in accordance with Article 8 of that Directive.”.
6 
For regulation 16 there shall be substituted the following:“
16 
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency shall ensure the publication, at least every month, of the information specified in Annex IX, Part I of MSN 1725 concerning ships to which this Part of the Regulations applies which during the previous month—
(a) have been detained in a port in the United Kingdom; or
(b) have been subject to a refusal of access to a port in the United Kingdom.”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
David Jamieson
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
28th June 2001