Regulation 79 Allocation of identifying number; port of choice and port numbersI1
United Kingdom
On making application for registration of a bareboat charter ship the applicant shall specify one of the ports listed in part 1 or 2 of Schedule 2, as is appropriate, which it is intended shall be the port of choice.
Where the application is made in respect of a fishing vessel and the Registrar is satisfied that the vessel is eligible to be registered as a bareboat charter ship, he shall:
allocate a port number, and
allocate an identifying number, whether or not the vessel already has a number allocated by its primary register.
In the case of any other ship the Registrar may allocate an identifying number, whether or not the ship already has a number allocated by its primary register.
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Reg. 79(2)(3) substituted (10.1.2000) by The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships, and Tonnage) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/3206), regs. 1, 14