{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-of-ships-regulations-1993/regulation-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-of-ships-regulations-1993/regulation-42.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/42",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Application for renewal of registration",
  "text": "(1) Application for renewal shall be in a form approved by the Secretary of State and shall be accompanied by—\n(a) a declaration of eligibility,\n(b) a declaration that there have been no changes to any registered details of the ship that have not been notified to the Registrar,\n(c) in respect of all fishing vessels, except those below 24 metres in length to which part IIA of the Tonnage Regulations does not apply, a declaration that the fishing vessel is correctly measured for tonnage under those Regulations, and\n(d) confirmation that the ship is not a sanctioned ship.\n(1A) In the case of an application for renewal made on or after 1st January 2001 in respect of a fishing vessel, the application shall in addition be accompanied by:\n(a) where an engine has been permanently de-rated, a declaration describing the method by which the engine has been permanently de-rated, or\n(b) in any other case, a declaration that the engine power recorded is the maximum continuous engine power.\n(2) Where no application for renewal is made the Registrar shall notify each and every mortgagee of the expiration of the ship’s registration.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 42(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/509), regs. 1(3), 14; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 42(1A) added (10.1.2000) by The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships, and Tonnage) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/3206), regs. 1, 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 42 in force at 21.3.1994, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3138/regulation/42",
    "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."
}