{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-of-ships-amendment-regulations-2017/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-of-ships-amendment-regulations-2017/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/879",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) (Amendment) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-of-ships-amendment-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Amendment to the Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Regulations 1993",
  "text": "After regulation 105 insert—\n“Copies of documents\n105A. (1) Where any document listed in paragraph (2) is to be provided by or to the Registrar, the Registrar may provide or receive a copy of that document, including a copy provided or received by means of an electronic communication.\n(2) The documents referred to in paragraph (1) are—\n(a) a transcript of the entries in the Register referred to in regulation 2(3);\n(b) an appointment of a representative person referred to in regulation 18(4)(a);\n(c) a certified extract in respect of the ship referred to in regulation 22(2);\n(d) proof of incorporation in accordance with the laws of a foreign country referred to in regulation 24(b);\n(e) a certificate from the one of the Registrars of Companies referred to in regulation 24(c);\n(f) a builder’s certificate referred to in regulation 28(1)(a) or 59(4)(e);\n(g) a bill of sale referred to in regulation 28(1)(b) and regulation 43(1);\n(h) a certificate of survey or measurement specifying a ship’s tonnage and build referred to in regulation 29(3), regulation 51(3), regulation 82(1)(b) and regulation 113A(1);\n(i) a carving and marking note referred to in regulation 31(2), regulation 33, regulation 35 and regulation 80;\n(j) a certificate of permanent defacement referred to in regulation 31(4);\n(k) a renewal notice referred to in regulation 41 or regulation 83(2);\n(l) a grant of representation or an extract from that grant in regulation 46(2)(a) or regulation 60(b)(i);\n(m) such evidence of proof of title referred to in regulation 46(2)(b) or regulation 60(b)(ii);\n(n) a signed notification referred to in regulation 49, regulation 84 or regulation 98;\n(o) a marking note referred to in regulation 52(2), regulation 53(3), regulation 54 and regulation 72;\n(p) a copy of certificate of registry, and any other document evidencing registration referred to in regulation 59(4)(d);\n(q) an instrument of transfer of a registered mortgage in regulation 61;\n(r) a mortgage deed referred to in regulation 62(1);\n(s) a certificate of registry or other document referred to in regulation 77(3)(c);\n(t) a notarised translation in the English language of any other document, as referred to in regulation 103.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)—\n“electronic communication” means a communication transmitted (whether from one person to another, from one device to another or from a person to a device or vice versa)—\n(i) by means of an electronic communications network; or\n(ii) by other means but while in electronic form; and\n“electronic communications network” has the meaning set out in section 32(1) of the Communications Act 2003.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 22 was amended by S.I. 1994/541."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Regulation 24 was amended by S.I. 1994/541."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Regulation 28 was amended by S.I. 1999/3206."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Regulation 29 was amended by S.I. 1998/1915, S.I. 1998/2976 and S.I. 1999/3206."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Regulation 51 was amended by S.I. 1999/3206."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Regulation 113A was inserted by S.I. 1998/2976."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "Regulation 31 was amended by S.I. 1999/3206."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "Regulation 80 was amended by S.I. 1999/3206."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "Regulation 41 was amended by S.I. 1998/2976."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "Regulation 83 was amended by S.I. 1998/2976."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "Regulation 49 was amended by S.I. 1994/541."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f12",
      "text": "Regulation 98 was amended by S.I. 1998/2976."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f13",
      "text": "Regulation 61 was substituted by S.I. 1994/541."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f14",
      "text": "2003 c. 21. Section 32(1) was amended by S.I. 2011/1210."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/879/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:08:25.947498+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."
}