{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-of-ships-regulations-1993/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-of-ships-regulations-1993/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Persons qualified to be owners of ships to be registered on Part I of the Register",
  "text": "(1) The following persons are qualified to be the owners of ships which are to be registered on Part I of the Register:—\n(a) (i) British citizens; or\n(ii) non-United Kingdom nationals exercising their right of freedom of movement of workers or right of establishment;\n(b) British Dependent Territories citizens;\n(c) British Overseas citizens;\n(d) persons who under the British Nationality Act 1981 are British subjects:\n(e) persons who under the Hong kong (British Nationality) Order 1986 are British Nationals (Overseas);\n(ea) Commonwealth citizens;\n(eb) citizens of a country listed in Schedule 6;\n(ec) non-United Kingdom nationals who are settled in the United Kingdom;\n(ed) bodies corporate incorporated in a Commonwealth state;\n(ee) bodies corporate incorporated in a country listed in Schedule 6;\n(f) bodies corporate incorporated in the United Kingdom or in an EEA State ;\n(g) bodies corporate incorporated in any relevant British possession ...; and\n(h) UK Economic Interest Groupings.\n(2) A person who is not qualified under paragraph (1) to be the owner of a ship registered on Part I of the Register may nevertheless be one of the owners of such a ship if:\n(a) a majority interest in the ship (within the meaning of regulation 8) is owned by persons who are so qualified under paragraph (1), and\n(b) the ship is registered on Part I of the Register.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 7(1)(a) substituted (1.1.1999) by The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/2976), regs. 1, 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 7(1)(ea)-(ee) inserted (29.3.2019) by The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/509), regs. 1(2), 5(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(1)(f) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Merchant Shipping (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1221), reg. 2(b), Sch. para. 1(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(1)(g) omitted (29.3.2019) by virtue of The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/509), regs. 1(2), 5(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 7(1)(h) substituted (31.12.2020) by The European Economic Interest Grouping (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1299), regs. 1, 63(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(2) substituted (21.3.1994) by The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/541), regs. 1, 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(2)(a) substituted (21.3.1994) by The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/541), regs. 1, 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in force at 21.3.1994, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 61."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/948."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3138/regulation/7",
    "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."
}