Merchant Shipping Act (Cap. 234), article 292

292. (1) The Minister may make regulations for the prevention of collisions at sea and in navigable waters (in this Act refer red to as the "collision regulations"), and may thereby regulate the l ights to be carried and exhibited, the fog signals to be carried and used, and the steering and sailing ru les to be observed, by ships. (2) The collision regulations, together with the provisions of this Part of this Act relating thereto or otherwise relating to collisions, shall apply to all Maltese vessels and shall also b e observed by all foreign ships within Maltese territorial and in land waters, and in any case arising in a Maltese court concerning matters arising within the said waters foreign ships shall, so far as respects the collision regulati ons and the aforesaid provisions of this Act, be treated as if they were Maltese ships. Observance of collision regulations. Amended by:  XIII. 1983.5; XXII. 2000.2; I.2025.84.