{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-of-ships-amendment-regulations-1998/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-of-ships-amendment-regulations-1998/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2976",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) (Amendment) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-of-ships-amendment-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For regulation 116 there shall be substituted the following regulation:\n“116 Subject to regulation 116A an old certificate shall remain in force until either:\n(a) a new certificate is issued under these Regulations; or\n(b) the certificate has expired, in accordance with the following table:\nAge of ship\nDate of expiry of certificate\nRegistered ships (other than those on Part II (fishing vessels) and Part III (small ships) with a year of build before:\n1st January 1950\n31st March 1999\n1st January 1970\n31st March 2000\n1st January 1975\n31st March 2001\n1st January 1989\n31st March 2002\n20th March 1994\n31st March 2003\nwhichever shall be the earlier.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2976/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:14:32.460077+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."
}