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title: "Merchant Shipping Act 1984"
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# Merchant Shipping Act 1984

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

Merchant Shipping Act 1984
1984 c. 5
An Act to make provision for the service of improvement notices and prohibition notices in connection with statutory provisions relating to the safety of ships and other matters; to make further provision with respect to the ascertainment of ships’ tonnages for the purposes of section 503 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 and section 4 of the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act 1971; and for connected purposes.
[13th March 1984]
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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## SCHEDULE 1 {#schedule-1}



## SCHEDULE 2 {#schedule-2}