{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-of-ships-amendment-regulations-1998/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-of-ships-amendment-regulations-1998/regulation-26.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/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In regulation 119–\n(a) in paragraph (1), for the words “five year period” there shall be substituted the words “transitional period”.\n(b) for paragraph (2), there shall be substituted the following paragraph:\n“(2) At least 4 months before the expiry of each date mentioned in column 2 in the table in regulation 116 or, in the case of the first entry, as soon as practicable after the coming into force of these Regulations, the Registrar shall publicise that:\n(a) all certificates of registry will expire on the specified date for ships of that year of build; and\n(b) application for renewal must be made in accordance with regulations 41 and 42 above.”.",
  "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/26",
    "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."
}