Regulation 3 Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Regulations 1993

In regulation 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation)—

(a)

in paragraph (2)—

(i)

after the definition of “the Registrar” insert—

““relevant provisions of the sanctions regulations” means regulation 77(1) and (2) of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019^f1;”,

(ii)

after the definition of “salmon coble” insert—

““settled” has the same meaning as in section 33(1) of the Immigration Act 1971^f2;”,

(iii)

in the definition of “ship” after “the purposes of” insert “the definition of “termination direction”, paragraph (3),”, and

(iv)

after the definition of “surveyor of ships” insert—

““termination direction” means a direction to terminate the registration of a ship given to the Registrar under regulation 77(3) of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019;”, and

(b)

after paragraph (2) insert—

“(3)

For the purposes of these Regulations, a ship is a “sanctioned ship” if—

(a)

were an application for registration in the Register to be made in respect of it, the Registrar would be required to refuse registration because of the relevant provisions of the sanctions regulations; or

(b)

a termination direction has been issued in relation to the ship.”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 2019/411.
f2: 1971 c. 77. The definition refers to section 33(2A) which was inserted by section 39(6) and paragraph 7(b) of Schedule 4 to the British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61).