{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-transitional-provisions-fishing-vessels-order-1988/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-transitional-provisions-fishing-vessels-order-1988/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1911",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Transitional Provisions — Fishing Vessels) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-transitional-provisions-fishing-vessels-order-1988",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Any reference, however worded, in any mortgage or other document by which a fishing vessel was made security for the repayment of a loan or discharge of any other obligation, to registration of the vessel under Part I or Part IV of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 (hereinafter called“the 1894 Act”) shall on and after the commencement date be construed as follows:—\n(a) if it is a reference to registration under Part I of that Act it shall be construed as a reference to registration of the vessel under Part II of the principal Act as a vessel to which the provisions of the said Part II relating to transfers by bill of sale and the registration of mortgages apply; and\n(b) if it is a reference to registration under Part IV of the 1894 Act it shall be construed as a reference to registration under Part II of the principal Act as a vessel to which those provisions do not apply.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1894 c. 60."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1911/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:55:29.637740+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."
}