{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fees-regulations-1990/schedule/part-VI/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/555",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fees-regulations-1990",
  "path": "schedule/part/VI/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Fees for Registration and Transfer of Fishing Vessels, Registration of Mortgages thereon and other Related Matters and for Inspection of the Register under Part II of the Merchant Shipping Act 1988",
  "text": "In this Part:–\n“counter service” means any service performed for an applicant attending in person at a Local Office or at the office where the Register is kept;\n“Local Office” has the same meaning as in the Merchant Shipping (Registration of Fishing Vessels) Regulations 1988;\n“transfer” includes transmission.\nFees\n2. Service\nWithout Counter Service £\nWith Counter Service £\n1 Registration of a vessel (including registration of a vessel whose registry has expired)\n(a) with full registration\n120\n150\n(b) with simple registration\n90\n120\n2 Registration of transfer of ownership of a registered vessel\n30\n43\n3 Registration of transfer of share or shares in a registered vessel:\n(a) one transfer\n30\n43\n(b) where more than one transfer in relation to a ship is lodged at the same occasion–\ntwo transfers\n40\n58\nthree transfers\n50\n73\nfour transfers\n60\n88\nfive or more transfers\n70\n100\n4 Renewal of registry under regulation 30 of the Merchant Shipping (Registration of Fishing Vessels) Regulations 1988\n40\n53\n5 Change of registered vessel from simple to full registration\n40\n53\n6 Registration of mortgage\n(a) one mortgage\n80\n110\n(b) where more than one mortgage in relation to the same loan over the same ship is lodged at the same occasion:\ntwo mortgages\n150\n190\nthree mortgages\n210\n260\nfour mortgages\n260\n320\nfive or more mortgages\n300\n370\n7 Registration of notice of intended mortgage\n20\n25\n8 Issue of duplicate certificate\n10\n15\n9 Issue of transcript of entries in the register relating to any one vessel–\n(a) for current entries\n10\n17\n(b) for other entries\n20\n27\n10 Personal inspection of the register\n5\n11 Registration of change of name of vessel\n30\n45\n12 Registration of change of port of registry and/or port number\n30\n45\n13 Registration of change of measurement, tonnage or engine particulars recorded in Register\n30\n45\nWhere more than one service under items 11, 12 or 13 in respect of any one vessel are to be inspected on the same visit the fee for the second and subsequent services shall be reduced by £20 each.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/1926."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/1254",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1990"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/555/schedule/part/VI/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:24:22.571644+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."
}