Regulation 8 Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Tonnage) Regulations 1997

After regulation 16 (penalties) insert—

“PART VI

Review

Review

17.

(1)

The Secretary of State must from time to time—

(a)

carry out a review of the regulatory provisions contained in these Regulations; and

(b)

publish a report setting out the conclusions of the review.

(2)

The first report must be published before 20th April 2025.

(3)

Subsequent reports must be published at intervals not exceeding five years.

(4)

Section 30(3) of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015^f1 requires that a review carried out under this regulation must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to how the obligations under the Convention are implemented in other countries which are subject to the obligations.

(5)

Section 30(4) of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 requires that a report published under this regulation must, in particular—

(a)

set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory provisions referred to in paragraph (1)(a);

(b)

assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved;

(c)

assess whether those objectives remain appropriate; and

(d)

if those objectives remain appropriate, assess the extent to which they could be achieved in another way which involves less onerous regulatory provision.

(6)

In this regulation “regulatory provision” has the same meaning as in sections 28 to 32 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (see section 32 of that Act).”.