Paragraph 2 Periodical payments
In place of payments per voyage, there shall be the following periodical payments for the classes of ships mentioned below:
Tugs and registered fishing vessels
Either
an annual payment per ship of £180 plus a payment of £18 for each metre of length in excess of 10 metres; or
two equal payments per ship of £100 plus a payment of £10 for each metre in length in excess of 10 metres in respect of each of the six month periods commencing respectively on 1st April and 1st October.
The annual payment for a new or newly registered tug or fishing vessel shall be one twelfth of the appropriate annual rate in paragraph 2(1)(a) of the scale for each month, or part of a month, of the year during which it is so registered, after the date of its first or new registration, subject to a minimum payment of £50.
Where a tug or a fishing vessel (other than one covered by paragraph 2(2)) is not registered for a continuous period of more than three months the annual payment shall be one twelfth of the appropriate annual rate in paragraph 2(1)(a) of the scale for each month, or part of a month, of the year during which it is so registered, subject to a minimum payment of £50.
Pleasure craft
An annual payment of £60, except that in the case of a pleasure craft which the general lighthouse authority is satisfied is ordinarily kept or used outside any area for which any general lighthouse authority has responsibility under Part XI of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894f1, the payment shall be £20 for each period of 30 days in respect of any visit, subject to the total payment in any year for such visit or visits not exceeding the annual payment; any period of such a visit comprising less than 30 days is to count as a 30 day period in such a visit.
A new or newly registered pleasure craft shall pay £20 for each month or part of a month of the light dues year remaining, subject to such payment not exceeding the annual payment.
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