Shipping (Amendment
No. 4)
(Jersey) Law 2014
A LAW to amend further the Shipping
(Jersey) Law 2002
Adopted by the
States 4th March 2014
Sanctioned by
Order of Her Majesty in Council 28th April 2014
Registered by the
Royal Court 8th
May 2014
THE STATES, subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have
adopted the following Law –
1 Interpretation
In this Law, “Law” means the Shipping (Jersey) Law 2002[1].
2 Amendment of Article 4
At the end of sub-paragraph (1)(c) of Article 4 of the
Law, the full stop shall be deleted and there shall be added the words
“or in pursuance of any other warrant having effect, prior to the
commencement of this provision, under section 73(1) of the Merchant
Shipping Act 1894 of the United Kingdom.”.
3 Amendment of Article 6
In sub-paragraph (1)(a)(ii) of Article 6 of the Law, for
the words “authorized or confirmed” there shall be substituted the
words “authorized, confirmed or allowed to be worn”.
4 Amendment of Article 173
(1) For
paragraph (1) of Article 173 of the Law there shall be substituted
the following paragraph –
“(1) This Article applies where –
(a) a person is charged with having committed an
offence on board a Jersey ship on the high seas or in a foreign port or
harbour; or
(b) a person being a British citizen ordinarily
resident in Jersey is charged with having committed an offence on board a
foreign ship to which the person does not belong,
and that person is found in
Jersey.”.
(2) At
the end of Article 173 of the Law there shall be added the following
paragraph –
“(6) In paragraph (1), ‘high
seas’ includes any navigable part of any sea below the low water mark,
whether or not within territorial waters.”.
5 Amendment of Schedule 9
At the end of Schedule 9 to the Law there shall be added the
following paragraph –
“5 Warrants for the
wearing of colours
Nothing in Article 201
of, or Schedule 8 to, this Law shall be taken as invalidating the wearing
of colours in pursuance of a warrant under section 73(1) of the Merchant
Shipping Act 1894 of the United Kingdom and having effect immediately
before the commencement of this Law, and for the purpose of the validity of
such a warrant that subsection shall, in its application to Jersey, continue in
force as though unaffected by the repeal of that Act by this Law.”.
6 Citation
This Law may be cited as the Shipping (Amendment No. 4)
(Jersey) Law 2014.
m.n. de la haye
Greffier of the States