Exceptions from shipping prohibitions
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7. After regulation 61 (exceptions for emergencies in certain cases), insert—
“Ships: exceptions from prohibition on port entry
61A.—(1) The prohibition in regulation 57A(1) (prohibition on port entry) is not contravened by providing a ship with access to a port if—
(a)a port entry direction has been given in relation to the ship under regulation 57C (movement of ships), or
(b)the access is needed by the ship in a case of emergency.
(2) The prohibition in regulation 57A(2) is not contravened by the entry into port of a ship if—
(a)a port entry direction has been given in relation to the ship under regulation 57C, or
(b)the entry is needed by the ship in a case of emergency.”