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The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships, and Tonnage) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

UK Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 3206 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
30 November 1999
In force from
10 January 2000
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Education, social security, pensions and public services
Made under
Merchant Shipping Act 1995

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

(This note does not form part of the Regulations) These Regulations further amend the Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Regulations 1993 (“the 1993 Regulations”). Their primary purpose is to require that the engine power recorded for fishing vessels is the maximum continuous engine power, or that power as permanently de-rated, as required by Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2930/86 of 22nd September 1986 (defining characteristics for fishing vessels) and Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 1381/87 of 20th May 1987 (establishing detailed rules concerning the marking and documentation of fishing vessels). The Regulations also make minor and drafting amendments to the 1993 Regulations. The Regulations also further amend the Merchant Shipping (Tonnage) Regulations 1997 and the Merchant Shipping (Fishing Vessels—Tonnage) Regulations 1988, to ensure that the term “fixed permanent structure” includes all structures which are fixed in place during the normal operation of the ship. (The term is used in the definition of “length overall”, and applied both for the purposes of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2930/86 and for the measurement of tonnage otherwise than under that Council Regulation.) A regulatory impact assessment has been prepared and a copy has been placed in the library of each House of Parliament. Copies can be obtained from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Spring Place, 105 Commercial Road, Southampton, Hampshire SO15 5EG (telephone number 01703 329 100).

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