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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/504/made</dc:identifier><dc:title>The Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) (Amendment) Regulations 2002</dc:title><dc:subject>Local Government</dc:subject><dc:publisher>King's Printer of Acts of Parliament</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2011-07-04</dc:modified><dc:subject scheme="SIheading">MERCHANT SHIPPING</dc:subject>
					<dc:description>These Regulations amend the Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Regulations 1997.</dc:description>
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<Number>2002 No. 504</Number>
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<Title>MERCHANT SHIPPING</Title>
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<Title>The Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) (Amendment) Regulations 2002</Title>
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<Text>Made</Text>
<DateText>6th March 2002</DateText>
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<Text>The Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 205(5) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995<FootnoteRef Ref="f00001"/> hereby makes the following Regulations:</Text>
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<Text>These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 1st April 2002.</Text>
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<Title>Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Regulations 1997</Title>
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<Text>Part II of Schedule 2 to the Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Regulations 1997<FootnoteRef Ref="f00002"/> shall be amended as follows:</Text>
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<Text>in paragraph 1(1)(a), for “£202 plus a payment of £21” there shall be substituted “£190 plus a payment of £20”;</Text>
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<Text>in paragraph 1(1)(b), for “£114” there shall be substituted “£110”; and</Text>
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<Text>in paragraph 3(1), for the words “and to paragraph (2) below,” to the end there shall be substituted:</Text>
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<Text>, to a maximum charge of £16,000 per voyage and to paragraph (2) below, the amount of light dues per voyage shall be 40 pence per ton.</Text>
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<PersonName>David Jamieson</PersonName>
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<DateText>6th March 2002</DateText>
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<Text>These Regulations amend the Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Regulations 1997.</Text>
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<Text>The Regulations reduce the amounts of the annual payment for tugs and fishing vessels from £202 to £190, and from £21 to £20 for each metre of length in excess of 10 metres. Where instead of an annual payment, two equal payments are made, these are reduced from £114 to £110 (Regulation 2(a) and (b)).</Text>
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<Text>The Regulations also reduce the amount of light dues payable per voyage in respect of ships other than tugs, fishing vessels and pleasure vessels, from 41 pence per ton to 40 pence per ton. They further provide that the maximum charge for such light dues will now be £16,000 per voyage (Regulation 2(c)).</Text>
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<Text>The decreases overall represent in the order of a 5% reduction in charges. This has been made possible by the increased efficiency of the General Lighthouse Authorities.</Text>
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<Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1995/21" id="c00001" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="1995" Number="0021">1995 c. 21</Citation>.</Text>
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<Text><Acronym Expansion="Statutory Instrument">S.I.</Acronym> <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1997/562" id="c00002" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1997" Number="0562">1997/562</Citation>, to which there is an amendment not relevant to these Regulations.</Text>
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