Merchant Shipping (Categorisation of Registries of Overseas Territories) Order 1992

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1992/1736
Year1992

1992 No. 1736

MERCHANT SHIPPING

The Merchant Shipping (Categorisation of Registries of Overseas Territories) Order 1992

Made 15th July 1992

Laid before Parliament 23th July 1992

Coming into force 13th August 1992

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 15th day of July 1992

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 11 of the Merchant Shipping Act 19881and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

S-1 This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping...

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Categorisation of Registries of Overseas Territories) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 13th August 1992.

(2) The Merchant Shipping (Categorisation of Registries of Overseas Territories) Order 19912and the Merchant Shipping (Categorisation of Registries) of Overseas Territories) (Amendment) Order 19913are hereby revoked.

S-2 For the purposes of section 11 of the Merchant Shipping Act...

2.—(1) For the purposes of section 11 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1988 (regulation of registration of ships in overseas territories by reference to categories of registers) there are hereby established the categories of registry specified in Column 2 of the Schedule to this Order which shall be known by the designation specified thereto in Column 1 of the said Schedule.

(2) The relevant overseas territories specified in column 4 of the Schedule are hereby assigned to the categories in Column 2.

S-3 No ship affected by a restriction on registration specified in...

3.—(1) No ship affected by a restriction on registration specified in Column 3 of the Schedule in relation to any category of registry shall be registered under Part I of the Merchant Shipping Act 18944in a relevant overseas territory assigned to that category.

(2) Paragraph (1) above shall be without prejudice to the operation of any provision for the time being in force under the law of any such territory as is mentioned in that paragraph by virtue of which the registration of ships under Part I of the 1894 Act in that territory is, or may be, further restricted.

(3) Paragraph (1) above shall not affect until 1st January 1994 the continued registration of any ship in a relevant overseas territory specified in Column 4 in relation to category 2: Limited tonnage and type if it was registered in that territory on 15th July 1992.

(4) Ships falling within category 2: Limited tonnage and type in the Schedule are excepted from the restriction on registration in the following circumstances—

(a)

(a) that the ship is—

(i) a fishing vessel, or

(ii) a passenger ship intended...

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