{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-tonnage-amendment-regulations-1988/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-tonnage-amendment-regulations-1988/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1910",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Tonnage) (Amendment) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-tonnage-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Merchant Shipping (Tonnage) Regulations 1982 (“the 1982 Regulations”) which give effect to the International Tonnage Convention 1969.\nThe amendments only concern fishing vessels and are consequential upon the coming into force of Part II of the Merchant Shipping Act 1988 (c. 12) (registration of fishing vessels). On and after 1st December 1988 all fishing vessels of 24 metres in length or over are to be measured for tonnage in accordance with the 1982 Regulations; but the tonnage of any existing vessel of 24 metres or over which was measured before 1st December 1988 in accordance with other tonnage measurement systems then applicable will continue to be recognised until 18th July 1994 or, if the owner requests re-measurement at an earlier date or the vessel is substantially altered at an earlier date, until that earlier date.\nThe tonnage of fishing vessels of less than 24 metres will be measured in accordance with the Merchant Shipping (Fishing Vessels)—(Tonnage) Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1909).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1910/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:55:30.443326+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."
}