Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 1915

The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) (Tonnage Amendment) Regulations 1998

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(a) the following definitions shall be inserted in the appropriate alphabetical positions - 


" (a)


" (i) "length" in regulations 29, 42 and 56 (except in regulation 56(4)(b)) has the same meaning as in the Tonnage Regulations";



(ii) "Tonnage Regulations" means the Merchant Shipping (Tonnage) Regulations 1997"[3];



(b) for the defintions of "overall length" there shall be substituted - 

"overall length" has the same meaning as "length overall" in the Tonnage Regulations.".

     4. In regulation 29(1) - 

(i) after "length" there shall be inserted "to which Part IIA of Merchant Shipping Tonnage Regulations 1997 does not apply"; and

(ii) for "tonnage regulations made under the Merchant Shipping Act 1965" there shall be submitted "Tonnage Regulations".

     5. In regulation 29(2) after "24 metres" there shall be inserted "other than a fishing vessel to which Part IIA of the Tonnage Regulations applies".

     6. In regulation 42(1) there shall be inserted a new sub-paragraph (c) - 

" (c) in respect of all fishing vessels, except those below 24 metres in length to which Part IIA of the Tonnage Regulations does not apply, a declaration that the fishing vessel is correctly measured for tonnage under those Regulations.".

     7. In regulation 56(1), at the end, a new sub-paragraph (i) shall be added as follows - 

" (i) except in the case of a fishing vessel below 24 metres in length to which Part IIA of the Tonnage Regulations does not apply, when the tonnage of a fishing vessel has not been measured in accordance with those Regulations, or though so measured, that information has not been notified to the Registrar.".

     8. After regulation 56(2) there shall be inserted a new paragraph (2A) as follows - 

    " (2A) Where the Registrar terminates registration under paragraph (1)(i) above he shall issue a closure transcript - 


(a) in the case of fishing vessels of 24m or more in length, having effect on or, as the case may be, after 1st January 1999;

(b) in the case of fishing vessels to which Part IIA of the Tonnage Regulations apply, having effect on or, as the case may be, after the date on which that Part applies to them."

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State of the Environment, Transport and the Regions


Glenda Jackson
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

4th August 1998

[2] S.I. 1993/3138, amended by S.I. 1994/541.back

[3] S.I. 1997/1509, amended by S.I. 1998/1916.back