{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-agency-inland-waterways-order-2010/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-agency-inland-waterways-order-2010/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/699",
  "legislation_title": "The Environment Agency (Inland Waterways) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-agency-inland-waterways-order-2010",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Duty to register",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the requirements of articles 6, 7 and 8, the Agency must register a vessel upon the receipt of an application for its registration.\n(2) Registration will ordinarily be for a period of 1 year from such date following the application for registration as the Agency may determine for the registration in question but the Agency may also if it sees fit register any vessel for such shorter period as it may determine.\n(3) When registering a vessel, the Agency must—\n(a) assign a registration number to the vessel; and\n(b) issue a registration certificate for the vessel.\n(4) When registering a vessel, the Agency may also—\n(a) assign a name or mark to the vessel unless the vessel is also registered under section 8 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995; and\n(b) issue a registration plate for the vessel.\n(5) Any name assigned to a vessel on its registration is to be—\n(a) the name of the vessel specified in the application for the vessel’s registration; or\n(b) such alternative name as the applicant may propose and which is acceptable to the Agency if the Agency determines that it is necessary to assign a different name to the vessel in order to avoid any confusion as to the identity of the vessel or the possibility of causing offence to any person.\n(6) The Agency may from time to time designate different categories of vessel either by reference to types, classes or sizes of vessel, or by reference to the use or location of vessels or by any combination of such means or other means for the purposes of any of the following requirements—\n(a) registration under article 5;\n(b) insurance under article 11;\n(c) construction and equipment standards under article 12; and\n(d) additional requirements for commercial vessels under article 15.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 5 in force at 6.4.2010, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/699/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:48:43.437003+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}