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1991 No. 770
MERCHANT SHIPPING
The Merchant Shipping (Categorisation of Registries of Overseas Territories) Order 1991
Made 20th March 1991
Laid before Parliament 3rd April 1991
Coming into force 1st May 1991
At the Court at Buckingham Palace the 20th day of March 1991
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:—
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Categorisation of Registries of Overseas Territories) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 1st May 1991.
(2) The Merchant Shipping (Categorisation of Registries of Overseas Territories) Order 19882is hereby revoked.
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 opposite 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.
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 18943in 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.
G. I. de Deney
Clerk of the Privy Council
SCHEDULE
Articles 2 and 3
CATEGORIES OF REGISTRY AND TERRITORIES ASSIGNED THERETO
(1) |
(2) |
(3) |
(4) |
Designation of Category |
Category |
Restrictions |
Relevant Overseas Territories |
1A: Unlimited tonnage and type |
Registry to which no restriction such as is mentioned in section... |
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