LAWS OF TUVALU
2008 Revised Edition

SHIPOWNERS' LIABILITY (COLONIAL TERRITORIES) 
ORDER IN COUNCIL 19631

CAP 48.31

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

HER MAJESTY, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 11 of the Merchant Shipping (Liability of Shipowners and Others) Act 1958, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows- 

1 Citation and commencement 

This Order may be cited as the Shipowners' Liability (Colonial Territories) Order in Council 1963 and shall come into operation on 5th October 1963. 

2 Provisions of 1958 Act extended to certain territories 

The provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Liabilities of Shipowners and Others) Act 1958 shall extend to each of the territories specified in Schedule 1 to this Order with the exceptions, adaptations and modifications specified in Schedule 2 to this Order. 

3 Provisions of limitation enactments extended to certain territories 
(Does not apply.)

W. G. Agnew. 

SCHEDULE 1

Section 2

Tuvalu

SCHEDULE 2

Section 2

1. Any reference to the Merchant Shipping (Liability of Shipowners and Others) Act 1958 shall be construed as a reference to that Act as extended to the Territory, and the reference in section 9 to the commencement of that Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of this Order. 

2. For any reference to the United Kingdom there shall be substituted a reference to the Territory. 

3. For any reference to the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation there shall be substituted a reference to the Governor of the Territory or, in the case of Tuvalu, the Commissioner; or, in the case of the British Antarctic Territory, the High Commissioner of that Territory; or, in the case of the Virgin Islands, the Administrator. 

4. The following provisions shall be omitted-- 

(a) subsections (2), (5), (6) and (7) of section 2, section 5 (7), section 8 (5), and section 10; 

(b) in section 1 (3) the words "made by Statutory Instrument"; 

(c) in section 5 (1) the words "(or, in Scotland, to have prorogated that jurisdiction)" . 

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ENDNOTES 
1 This is a United Kingdom Statutory Instrument, S.I. 1963/1632 and S.I. 1977/1629