{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fees-regulations-1987/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fees-regulations-1987/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/63",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fees-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations:\n“the Act of 1948” means the Merchant Shipping Act 1948;\n“the Act of 1949” means the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1949;\n“the Act of 1967” means the Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967;\n“the Act of 1970” means the Merchant Shipping Act 1970;\n“the Act of 1979” means the Merchant Shipping Act 1979;\n“the principal Act” means the Merchant Shipping Act 1894; and\n“tons” means gross tons and the gross tonnage of a ship having alternative gross tonnages shall be taken to the larger of those tonnages.\n(2) Subject to regulation 3 below the following Regulations are hereby revoked:—\nthe Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 1985;\nthe Merchant Shipping (Fees) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 1985;\nthe Merchant Shipping (Fishing Vessels) (Radios) (Fees) Regulations 1986;\nthe Merchant Shipping (Fees) (Amendment No. 1) Regulations 1986.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1894 c. 60."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1985/1607."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1985/1727."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/680."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/837."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/63/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:33:55.247694+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."
}