{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-home-office-ships-order-2020/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1551",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Home Office Ships) Order 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-home-office-ships-order-2020",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Entry of information in the register and retention of documents",
  "text": "(1) Following receipt of an application under article 2, the registrar must enter in Part 1 of the register maintained under section 8 of the 1995 Act—\n(a) a record of the ship as belonging to the Secretary of State,\n(b) the particulars stated in the application, and\n(c) the information contained in any current certificate issued in respect of the ship by a surveyor of ships.\n(2) In respect of any ship registered under this Order, the registrar must retain the application and any copies of documents of title provided with it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 313(1) of the 1995 Act defines “surveyor of ships” by reference to section 256 of that Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1551/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:20:06.716238+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."
}