The Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure) Regulations 1993

PART I PRELIMINARY

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force:

(a) in the case of vessels which are not small vessels, on 13th May 1993; and

(b) in the case of small vessels, on 1st April 1994.

2.  In these Regulations:

“appropriate certificate” means a certificate issued under regulation 9 or 15 below or as mentioned in regulation 10;

“non-United Kingdom vessel” means a vessel which is not a United Kingdom ship within the meaning of section 21(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979(1);

“small vessel” means an existing ship of less than 150 tons gross or a new ship of less than 24 metres in length; and for this purpose “existing ship”, “new ship”, “tons gross” and “length” have the same meaning as in the Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967(2).

(1)

1979 c. 39; as to the meaning of “Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies”, referred to in section 21(2), see now the British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61), section 51(3).

(2)

1967 c. 27.