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The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Fishing Vessels) Regulations 1988

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PART IVPROVISIONAL REGISTRATION

Provisional Registration

48.  Where a fishing vessel acquired outside the United Kingdom which the owner intends should be registered as a British fishing vessel is at the material time at a port outside the United Kingdom the owner may, instead of applying to the Secretary of State for registration apply to the appropriate person for provisional registration of the vessel.

Application for provisional registration

49.  An application for provisional registration shall be in a form approved by the Secretary of State and shall be accompanied by the particulars required by regulation 13 to be included in a Declaration of British Character.

Scrutiny of particulars of eligibility

50.  The appropriate person shall forward those particulars to the Secretary of State who shall, if he is satisfied that the vessel is eligible for registry as a British fishing vessel, notify the appropriate person that he is so satisfied.

Period of provisional registry

51.  On receipt of that notification (but not otherwise) the appropriate person may proceed to register the vessel provisionally for a period of 3 months.

Certificate of provisional registry

52.  The appropriate person shall thereupon issue to the owner of the vessel a Certificate of Provisional Registry in a form approved by the Secretary of State. The certificate shall have the effect of a Certificate of Registry until—

(a)the expiration of three months from its date, or

(b)the vessel’s arrival in the United Kingdom, or

(c)termination under regulation 53,

whichever shall first occur.

Condition of provisional registry

53.  It shall be a condition of provisional registry that the vessel shall not fish for profit while so registered; and if any provisionally registered vessel does fish for profit its provisional registry shall immediately thereupon terminate and the owner shall as soon as practicable surrender the Certificate of Provisional Register to the Secretary of State.

Provisional registration not to be renewed

54.  Where a vessel has been provisionally registered once it shall not be provisionally registered again within one year of the date of issue of the Certificate of Provisional Registry except with the permission of the Secretary of State.

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