{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-of-ships-regulations-1993/regulation-89",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-registration-of-ships-regulations-1993/regulation-89.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/89",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "89",
  "heading": "Persons qualified to be the owners of a small ship to be registered on Part III of the Register",
  "text": "The following persons are entitled to be the owners of a small ship to be registered on Part III 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(f) Commonwealth citizens not falling within those paragraphs ; and\n(g) non-United Kingdom nationals who are settled in the United Kingdom",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 89(a) substituted (1.1.1999) by The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/2976), regs. 1, 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 89(e) 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), 25(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 89(g) and word inserted (29.3.2019) by The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/509), regs. 1(2), 25(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 89 applied (31.3.2023) by The Merchant Shipping (Watercraft) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/35), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 89 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/89",
    "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."
}