The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Regulations 1993

Applications

77.—(1) Every application for registration of a bareboat charter ship shall be made to the Registrar at the General Registry of Shipping and Seaman in person or by post.

(2) Regulation 21 (The applicant) shall apply to this Part as if the charterer were the owner.

(3) Every application for registration of the ship shall be in a form approved by the Secretary of State and accompanied by:—

(a) a declaration of eligibility which shall include:—

(i) a declaration by every charterer setting out his qualification to register a bareboat charter ship, and

(ii) in respect of fishing vessels, a declaration that the management, and direction and control, of the ship, will be carried out from within the United Kingdom.

(b) a copy of the charter-party showing:—

(i) the name of the ship;

(ii) the name of the charterer or charterers and the name of the owner or owners of the ship;

(iii) the date of the charter-party;

(iv) the duration of the charter-party;

(c) the certificate of registry, or other document, issued by the authority responsible for the registration of ships in the country of primary registration showing the ownership of the ship; and

(d) where the charterer is a body corporate, the document or documents required by regulation 24 (Applications by bodies corporate).

(4) Regulation 29 (Survey and measurement) shall apply to this Part.

(5) The Registrar may refuse to register any fishing vessel as a bareboat charter ship if he is not satisfied that there is in force in respect of the vessel any certificate required to be so in force by virtue of section 4 of the Fishing Vessels (Safety Provisions) Act 1970.