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THE
MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1995
ORDER
FOR REHEARING OF FORMAL INVESTIGATION
Whereas
on or about the 8th day of February 1974 the motor trawler
GAUL, registered at Hull Official Humber H.243, sank on the North
Cape of the north of Norway with the loss of 36 lives and whereas
a shipping casualty has occurred;
And whereas
a Formal Investigation was held into said casualty, pursuant to an order of
the Secretary of State;
And whereas
the Wreck Commissioner made a report to the Secretary of State, by Report of
Court No. S493;
And whereas
the Secretary of State is satisfied that new and important evidence which
could not be produced at the investigation has been discovered;
Now
the Secretary of State for the Department of the Environment, Transport and
the Regions in pursuance of the powers conferred by section 269 of the
Merchant Shipping Act 1995 hereby orders that the whole of the case shall be
reheard by a Wreck Commissioner.
Dated
John Prescott
April
14 1999
Secretary
of State for
the
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
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