{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fishing-boats-registry-amendment-order-1987/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fishing-boats-registry-amendment-order-1987/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1284",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Fishing Boats Registry) (Amendment) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fishing-boats-registry-amendment-order-1987",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Merchant Shipping (Fishing Boats Registry) Order 1981 shall be amended as follows:\n(1) there shall be added to article 4(1) the following proviso:—\n“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.”;\n(2) for article 4(2) the following shall be substituted:\n“(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:\n(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;\n(b) in relation to a port listed in table C in that Schedule\n(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;\n(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;\n(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”.”;\n(3) for article 6(2) the following shall be substituted:—\n“(2) The application shall be made:\n(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\n(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;\nThe application shall include such information as the Registrar may reasonably require.”;\n(4) in article 16(2) for the words “3 months” there shall be substituted the words “1 month”;\n(5) Schedule 1 shall be replaced by the Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Order; and\n(6) the whole of Schedule 3 shall be deleted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/740."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1284/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:23:15.438189+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."
}