{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fees-regulations-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fees-regulations-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3243",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fees-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation and revocation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations:\n“the Act of 1995” means the Merchant Shipping Act 1995;\n“Marine Safety Agency” means the Marine Safety Agency, an executive agency of the Department of Transport;\n“Radio Rules” means the following:\n(i) the Merchant Shipping (Radio) (Fishing Vessels) Rules 1974;\n(ii) regulations 125A, 125B, 125C, 130 and 131 of the Fishing Vessels (Safety Provisions) Rules 1975;\n(iii) the Merchant Shipping (Radio Installations) Regulations 1992;\n(iv) the Merchant Shipping (Navigational Equipment) Regulations 1993; and\n(v) the Merchant Shipping (Survey and Certification) Regulations 1995, so far as those Regulations relate to radio installations on cargo ships;\n“tons” means gross tons, and the tonnage of a ship having alternative gross tonnages shall be taken to be the larger of those tonnages.\n(2) Subject to regulation 3 below,\n(a) the following Regulations are hereby revoked:\nThe Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 1995;\nThe Merchant Shipping (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1996;\n(b) in the Merchant Shipping (Certificates of Competency as A.B.) Regulations 1970 Schedule 3 shall be omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1974/19/19, amended by S.I. 1982/1292 and S.I. 1994/1104."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1975/330; relevant amendment is S.I. 1991/1342."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/3 to which there is an amendment not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/69."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/1210, amended by S.I. 1996/2418."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/1893."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/2419."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "S.I. 1970/294; Schedule 3 was substituted by S.I. 1995/1893."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "subst",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3340",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/1977",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Fees) (Amendment)Regulations 2004"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3243/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:28:39.770841+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."
}