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Regulation 2 Amendments to the 1997 Regulations

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(1)

Schedule 2 to the Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Regulations 1997f1 (“the 1997 Regulations”) is amended as follows.

(2)

In Part II (Scale of Payments) —

(a)

for paragraph 3(1), substitute—

“(1)

In respect of ships of all other classes, subject to paragraph (2) below, light dues shall be payable in accordance with paragraph (1A) below in respect of a voyage which ends at a port or place in the United Kingdom.”;

(b)

after paragraph 3(1), insert—

“(1A)

Subject to a minimum charge of £60 per voyage and to a maximum charge of £12,250 per voyage, the amount of light dues per voyage shall be 35 pence per ton.”; and

(c)

in paragraph 3(3), omit “or departs from”.

(3)

In Part IV (Description of Vessels Exempt from Lights Dues), omit paragraph (5).

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Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1997/562; relevant amendments are in S.I. 2002/504 and S.I. 2004/610.