{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-light-dues-amendment-regulations-2026/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/234",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) (Amendment) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-light-dues-amendment-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Regulations 2025",
  "text": "(1) The Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Regulations 2025 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation), after the definition of “pleasure vessel” insert—\n““registered length” means the measurement which—\n(a) is recorded as the registered length in a vessel’s certificate of registry issued under regulation 37 of the Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Regulations 1993, in the case of a vessel which is registered in the United Kingdom,\n(b) is recorded as the registered length in any equivalent certificate issued in the case of a vessel which is registered outside the United Kingdom, or\n(c) would be recorded as the registered length if the vessel were registered in the United Kingdom, in the case of an unregistered vessel;”.\n(3) In regulation 4 (periodical payments)—\n(a) in paragraphs 3(a) and (b) and (4), for “load line” substitute “registered”;\n(b) in paragraph (4), for “less than” substitute “not exceeding”.\n(4) In regulation 5 (payments per voyage), for paragraph 2 substitute—\n“(2) The amount of light dues per voyage must be calculated on the basis of the tonnage of the ship—\n(a) from 1st April 2026 at the rate of 46 pence per ton subject to—\n(i) a minimum charge of £60, and\n(ii) a maximum charge of £23,000;\n(b) from 1st April 2027 at the rate of 47 pence per ton subject to—\n(i) a minimum charge of £60, and\n(ii) a maximum charge of £23,500.”.\n(5) In Schedule 1 (vessels exempt from light dues)—\n(a) in paragraph 5, for “load line” substitute “registered”;\n(b) for paragraph 13, substitute—\n“13 Vessels arriving solely for the purpose of moderation, alteration or scrapping.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2025/278, amended by S.I. 2025/369."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/3138."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/234/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:04:54.678914+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."
}