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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ministry-of-defence-commercially-managed-ships-order-1992/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ministry-of-defence-commercially-managed-ships-order-1992/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1293",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Ministry of Defence Commercially Managed Ships) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-ministry-of-defence-commercially-managed-ships-order-1992",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Regulations for registry",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State shall not be regarded as or deemed to be the managing owner of a Ministry of Defence commercially managed ship.\n(2) There shall be registered by the registrar of the port of registry of a Ministry of Defence commercially managed ship the name of the person to whom the management of that ship is entrusted by the Secretary of State.\n(3) An officer of the Ministry of Defence shall, in the event of any change in the identity or in the address of the manager of a Ministry of Defence commercially managed ship, notify the registrar of the ship’s port of registry of the name and address of the new manager or (as the case may be) of the new address, as soon as practicable after the change occurs.\n(4) Without prejudice to the provisions of article 10(2), any person whose name is registered under this article shall, for the purposes of the Acts, be under the same obligations and subject to the same liabilities under the Acts as if he were the managing owner.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1293/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:22:11.465947+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."
}