Regulation 4 Amendment of the Ship Recycling Facilities Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

(1)

The Ship Recycling Facilities Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015^f1 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 2 (interpretation), in paragraph 1—

(a)

at the end of the definition of “European List”, after “the EU Ship Recycling Regulation” insert “as it has effect in EU law”; and

(b)

at the end insert—

““United Kingdom List” means the list of ship recycling facilities published by the Secretary of State under Article 16 of the EU Ship Recycling Regulation;

“United Kingdom ship” means a ship registered in the United Kingdom under Part 2 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995.”.

(3)

In regulation 4 (authorisation of ship recycling facilities)—

(a)

in paragraph (1), for “and 14” substitute “to 15”; and

(b)

in paragraph (2), for “and 14” substitute “to 15”.

(4)

In regulation 5 (application of the 1978 Order), for “and 14” substitute “to 15”.

(5)

In regulation 6 (European List of facilities at which ships flying the flag of a Member State may be recycled)—

(a)

for the heading, substitute “Facilities at which ships may be recycled”;

(b)

for paragraph (1), substitute—

“(1)
After exit day, ship recycling facilities in Northern Ireland must not accept any United Kingdom ship within the scope of the EU Ship Recycling Regulation for ship recycling unless the ship recycling facility is included on the United Kingdom List.”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.R. 2015 No. 229, as amended by S.R. 2018 No. 171.