{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-of-ships-regulations-1993/regulation-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-of-ships-regulations-1993/regulation-39.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3138",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-of-ships-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/39",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Period of registration",
  "text": "Subject to regulation 87L(6) and regulation 116 the registration of a ship shall, unless terminated under these Regulations, be valid for a period of 5 years beginning with the date of registration specified in the certificate of registry and shall expire at the end of that period unless it is renewed in accordance with regulation 42 (Application for renewal of registration).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 39 inserted (1.1.1999) by The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/2976), regs. 1, 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 39 inserted (29.3.2019) by The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/509), regs. 1(2), 13"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 39 in force at 21.3.1994, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3138/regulation/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:44:37.150051+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."
}