The Merchant Shipping (Fishing Boats Registry) (Amendment) Order 1987
S.I. 1987/1284 · Made 21 July 1987
MERCHANT SHIPPING
Made 21st July 1987
Laid before Parliament 29th July 1987
Coming into force 19th August 1987
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 21st day of July 1987
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by sections 373(5) and 738(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894f1 and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:
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Footnotes
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1894 c. 60; section 373(5)(d) was amended by the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 (c. 39), section 43(3) and Schedule 6, Part VI, paragraph 1.
Contents
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This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Fishing Boats Registry) (Amendment) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 19th August 1987.
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The Merchant Shipping (Fishing Boats Registry) Order 1981f1 shall be amended as follows:
there shall be added to article 4(1) the following proviso:—
“provided that the ports listed in table D in Schedule 1 shall only be ports of registry for boats registered also under Part I of the principal Act.”;
for article 4(2) the following shall be substituted:
“(2)The following persons (hereafter referred to as Registrars) shall be the officers appointed to carry out the work of registration and the provisions of this Order:
(a)in relation to a port in the United Kingdom other than a port listed in table C in Schedule 1, the officer who is the Registrar of British Ships for that port;
(b)in relation to a port listed in table C in that Schedule
(i)where the boat is registered under Part I of the principal Act, the officer who is the Registrar of British Ships for that port;
(ii)where the boat is not so registered, an officer of the Secretary of State for Scotland stationed at the place specified in column 3 of that table in relation to the port in question;
(c)in relation to a port in the Channel Islands or Isle of Man, the officer specified in relation to that port in column 3 of table F in Schedule 1 entitled “Channel Islands and Isle of Man”.”;
for article 6(2) the following shall be substituted:—
“(2)The application shall be made:
(a)in the case of boats registered under Part I of the principal Act, to the Registrar of British Ships of the port of registry at which the boat is so registered; and
(b)in the case of boats not so registered, to the Registrar of the port of registry which is, or is nearest to, the port from which the boat will be employed;
The application shall include such information as the Registrar may reasonably require.”;
in article 16(2) for the words “3 months” there shall be substituted the words “1 month”;
Schedule 1 shall be replaced by the Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Order; and
the whole of Schedule 3 shall be deleted.
Signature
G.I. de Deney
Clerk of the Privy Council
“SCHEDULE I
PORTS OF REGISTRY
Article 4
ENGLAND AND WALES
Table A
(1) (2) Ports of Registry Distinguishing Letters Aberystwyth AB Barnstaple BE Barrow BW Beaumaris BS Berwick-on-Tweed BK Bideford BD Blyth BH Boston BN Bridgwater BR Bristol BL Brixham BM Caernarvon CO Cardiff CF Cardigan CA Carlisle CL Chester CH Colchester CK Cowes CS Dartmouth DH Dover DR Exeter E Falmouth FH Faversham F Fleetwood FD Folkestone FE Fowey FY Gloucester GR Goole GE Great Yarmouth YH Grimsby GY Hartlepool HL Harwich HH Hull H Ipswich IH King’s Lynn LN Lancaster LR Littlehampton LI Liverpool LL Llanelly LA London LO Lowestoft LT Maldon MN Manchester MR Maryport MT Middlesbrough MH Milford Haven M Newcastle NE Newhaven NN Newport, Gwent NT Padstow PW Penzance PZ Plymouth PH Poole PE Portsmouth P Port Talbot PT Preston PN Ramsgate R Rochester RR Runcorn RN Rye RX St. Ives SS Salcombe SE Scarborough SH Scilly SC Shields. North SN Shields, South SSS Shoreham SM Southampton SU Stockton ST Sunderland SD Swansea SA Teignmouth TH Truro TO Weymouth WH Whitby WY Whitehaven WA Wisbech WI Workington WO SCOTLAND
Table B
(1) (2) Ports of Registry Distinguishing Letters Aberdeen A Alloa AA Arbroath AH Banff BF Borrowstoness BO Buckie BCK Burntisland BU Dundee DE Fraserburgh FR Grangemouth GH Granton GN Inverness INS Kirkcaldy KY Kirkwall K Leith LH Lerwick LK Methil ML Montrose ME Peterhead PD Wick WK Table C
(1) (2) (3) Ports of Registry Distinguishing Letters Officer of the Secretary of State for Scotland, stationed at Ballantrae BA Ayr Broadford BRD Mallaig Campbeltown CN Campbeltown Castlebay, Barra CY Stornoway Greenock GK Ayr Oban OB Oban Rothesay RO Campbeltown Stornoway SY Stornoway Tarbert, Loch Fyne TT Campbeltown Ullapool UL Ullapool Table D
(Applicable only to fishing boats registered under Part I of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894.)
(1) (2) Ports of Registry Distinguishing Letters Ardrossan AD Ayr AR Dumfries DS Glasgow GW NORTHERN IRELAND
Table E
(1) (2) Ports of Registry Distinguishing Letters Belfast B Coleraine CE CHANNEL ISLANDS AND ISLE OF MAN
Table F
(1) (2) (3) Ports of Registry Distinguishing Letters Registrars Guernsey GU Chief Officer of Customs and Excise Jersey J Chief Officer of Customs and Excise Castletown CT Officer of the Isle of Man Harbour Board (stationed at Douglas) Douglas DO Officer of the Isle of Man Harbour Board Peel PL Officer of the Isle of Man Harbour Board (stationed at Douglas) Ramsey RY Officer of the Isle of Man Harbour Board (stationed at Douglas) ”
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Merchant Shipping (Fishing Boat Registry) Order 1981. It provides that in most cases the Registrars for ports of registry in the United Kingdom shall be the officers who are Registrars of British Ships for the ports in question. In ports listed in table C in Schedule 1 of the 1981 Order (as now amended) headed “Scotland” the Registrar is to be an officer of the Secretary of State for Scotland stationed at a specified place, except where the boat is registered under Part I of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 in which case the Registrar is to be the Registrar of British Ships. There is no alteration in the appointment of Registrars for the ports in the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.
The requirement for an application for registry to be made in a specified form is replaced by a requirement for an application to include such information as the Registrar may reasonably require. The Order also reduces from 3 months to 1 month the period within which evidence of the right of a boat to be registered, which the Secretary of State may demand, must be produced to him.