Statutory Instrument 1993 No. 1072

The Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure) Regulations 1993

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1993 No. 1072

MERCHANT SHIPPING

The Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure) Regulations 1993

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by the enactments specified in Schedule 1 to these Regulations, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

    1.    These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force:
 (a) in the case of vessels which are not small vessels, on 13th May 1993; and
 (b) in the case of small vessels, on 1st April 1994.

    2.    In these Regulations:
"appropriate certificate" means a certificate issued under regulation 9 or 15 below or as mentioned in regulation 10;
"non-United Kingdom vessel" means a vessel which is not a United Kingdom ship within the meaning of section 21(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979^[1];
"small vessel" means an existing ship of less than 150 tons gross or a new ship of less than 24 metres in length; and for this purpose "existing ship", "new ship", "tons gross" and "length" have the same meaning as in the Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967^[2].

[1] 1979 c. 39; as to the meaning of "Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies", referred to in section 21(2), see now the British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61), section 51(3). back

[2] 1967 c. 27. back

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