The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Regulations 1993

Service of notices

101.—(1) Where it appears to the Registrar that regulations 56(b), (d), (e), (f), (g) or (h) (Removal from the Register) or 87(b) or (d) (Closure of bareboat charter ship’s registration by the Registrar) apply he may serve notice on the owner or managing owner, or on any charterer, manager or operator of the ship requiring him to produce, within 30 days, evidence, which may include a declaration of British connection, sufficient to satisfy him that the ship is eligible to remain on the Register.

(2) If at the expiry of that period of 30 days the Registrar is not so satisfied, he may:—

(a) extend the notice and ask for further information or evidence, or

(b) serve a final notice which closes the ship’s registration, such closure to take effect 7 days after the service of that notice.

(3) Where a ship’s registration is terminated under paragraph (2) the Registrar shall issue a closure transcript and the owner of the ship shall forthwith surrender its certificate of registry.