The Merchant Shipping (Carriage of Cargoes) Regulations 1997
These Regulations give effect, in relation to sea-going United Kingdom cargo carrying ships and to other sea-going cargo carrying ships while they are within the United Kingdom or the territorial waters thereof, to the amendments to Chapter VI of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 1974 adopted on 23rd May 1991 by the Maritime Safety Committee of the International Maritime Organisation at its fifty-ninth session by Resolution MSC.22(59); and revoke and replace the Merchant Shipping (Grain) Regulations 1985.