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Explanatory note

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These Regulations replace the Pleasure Craft (Arrival and Report) Regulations 1979 with the following principal changes:

1

The arrival of most pleasure craft will no longer have to be notified to Customs by telephone or in person before the lodgement of a written report.

2

Persons not now required to notify the arrival of their vessel will no longer have to remain on board for up to two hours to give an officer the opportunity of boarding the vessel.

3

Persons required under regulation 6(2) to notify arrival will not have to wait for an officer to board, if an officer so agreed at the time when the arrival was notified.

4

Pleasure craft anchored solely for the purpose of sheltering, or waiting for favourable winds or tides will no longer be exempt from the requirement to make report.