Enabling power: Merchant shipping acts, 1894, s.427 & 1964, s.9 & Merchant shipping (safety conventions) act, 1949, s.2 & Fishing vessels (safety provisions) act, 1970, s.2(1). Issued: 7.4.77. Made: 1.4.77. Laid: 7.4.77. Coming into force: 6.5.77. Effect: S.I. 1977/252, amended.

Enabling power: Merchant shipping acts, 1894, s. 427 & 1964, s. 9 & Fishing vessels (safety provisions) act, 1970, s. 2(1). Merchant shipping (safety convention) act, 1949, s. 2. Issued: 9.6.78. Made: 2.6.78. Laid: 9.6.78. Coming into force: 30.6.78. Effect: SI 1977/252, amended.

Enabling power:Merchant shipping act 1979, ss. 21 (1) (a) (b), 22 (3) (a). Issued:17.9.87. Made:8.9.87. Laid:17.9.87. Coming into force:8.10.87. Effect:S.I. 1977/252; 1977/632; 1978/801; 1984/955 revoked. Regional application:E/W/S/NI

Now in its third edition, Merchant Shipping Legislation is a useful tool tool for those wishing to refer to the UK and Commonwealth merchant shipping statutes. Organized in subject areas and regularly updated, this complete annotation and commentary on the UK and Commonwealth merchant shipping legislation will be of use to the work of maritime lawyers in the UK and overseas. All the provisions of the various merchant shipping acts are contained in a single easy-to-use volume organized in subject areas. Divided into twenty chapters, the work addresses all the most important areas including: registration; collisions; salvage; pilotage; environmental protection; oil pollution and carriage of goods.

This book, first published in 1980, covers the employment of merchant seamen, principally from the perspective of a labour lawyer, but including a great deal of material not normally found in books on labour law. It also shows how the law is but one kind of rule; that the collective organisations of works and employers create and enforce rules of industrial practice that have just as important an effect on the lives of those they cover.