Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly

Professor Francis D Rose

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YEMEN’S NEW MARITIME CODE

Since North and South Yemen unified on 22 May 1990, there has been considerable lawmaking activity by the Republic of Yemen’s Government to replace the two legal systems which it inherited. The statutes of North Yemen were largely based on Egyptian law, itself a derivative of French law. South Yemen followed the common law tradition left by the British colonial government of Aden, mixed also with Soviet-bloc-inspired statutes.

One of the latest laws enacted in Yemen is the Maritime Law, Republican Order No. 15 of 1994.1 The Law is a comprehensive code of 429 Articles grouped in five parts, dealing with topics which include: (1) ship registration, ship inspection, maritime liens, ship mortgages and ship arrests; (2) shipowners, the master, crew contracts and ships’ agents; (3) charterparties, carriage of goods and passengers, towage and pilotage; (4) collisions,

1. It was announced in the official gazette dated 31 October 1994, which was, however, published as recently as February 1995.

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