# The Merchant Shipping (Cargo and Passenger Ship Construction and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023, Paragraph 12: The Merchant Shipping (Counting and Registration of Persons on Board Passenger Ships) Regulations 1999

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

In the Merchant Shipping (Counting and Registration of Persons on Board Passenger Ships) Regulations 1999—
(a) in regulation 5(1)(a), for “in the case of a passenger ship of Class II or II(A)” substitute “in the case of a passenger ship engaged on a short international voyage or a passenger ship of Class II(A)”;
(b) after regulation 5(7) add—
“(8) In this regulation—
“short international voyage” means an international voyage—
(a) in the course of which a passenger ship is not more than 200 miles from a port or place in which the passengers and crew could be placed in safety; and
(b) which does not exceed 600 miles in distance between the last port of call in the country in which the voyage begins and the final port of destination.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/246/schedule/paragraph/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-cargo-and-passenger-ship-construction-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2023/schedule/paragraph-12
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.