{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-light-dues-regulations-1997/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-light-dues-regulations-1997/schedule-2/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/562",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-light-dues-regulations-1997",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Payments per voyage",
  "text": "(1) In respect of ships of all other classes, subject to a minimum charge of £60 per voyage and to paragraph (2) below, the amount of light dues per voyage shall be 41 pence per ton.\n(2) Where a ship has paid dues under paragraph (1) in respect of a voyage it shall not be required to pay light dues in respect of any subsequent voyage in any period of one month commencing with the last preceding relevant date.\n(3) For this purpose, “relevant date” means the date on which a ship arrives at or departs from a port or place on a voyage in respect of which light dues were paid or payable.\n(4) In any year, a ship shall not be required to make payments of light dues for more than seven voyages in total.\n(5) A voyage of a ship shall be reckoned from port to port.\n(6) A payment on account of light dues made under paragraph (1) above in any year shall not entitle the ship to—\n(a) any exemption from dues in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (2) above; or\n(b) any limitation of liability for dues in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (4) above,\nbeyond 30th April in the following year.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/458",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) (Amendment) Regulations 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/458",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) (Amendment) Regulations 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2017/543",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) (Amendment) Regulations 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2017/543",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) (Amendment) Regulations 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2016/269",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) (Amendment) Regulations 2016"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/495",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) (Amendment) Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/610",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) (Amendment) Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "am (with transtl provns)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/649",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) (Amendment) Regulations 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2114",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2014/527",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) (Amendment) Regulations 2014"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2014/527",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) (Amendment) Regulations 2014"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2016/269",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) (Amendment) Regulations 2016"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/504",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) (Amendment) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/562/schedule/2/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:23:40.887837+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."
}