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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-etc-act-1993-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-provisions-order-1993/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3137",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Registration, etc.) Act 1993 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-etc-act-1993-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-provisions-order-1993",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Qualification as owner to continue for certain purposes",
  "text": "(1) Where any person—\n(a) was immediately before 21st March 1994 qualified to be an owner of a British ship and, as such, was the owner or one of the owners of, or of a majority interest in, a ship registered under Part I of the 1894 Act or under section 5 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1983 (registration of small ships); but\n(b) as from that date is, in consequence of regulations made under sections 2 and 3 of the 1993 Act, no longer a person qualified to be an owner of a British ship,\nhe shall nevertheless be treated as a person so qualified for the purposes specified in sub-paragraph (2) below.\n(2) Those purposes are—\n(a) the continuation in force and renewal of the ship’s registration under registration regulations made under the 1993 Act;\n(b) so long as that registration continues in force, any other purposes of any statutory provision so far as having effect in relation to the ship.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c. 13."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3137/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:44:37.851424+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."
}