The Merchant Shipping (Categorisation of Registries of Overseas Territories) Order 1991

• Citation: S.I. 1991/770
• Sections: 3

Section 1

(1) This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Categorisation of Registries of Overseas Territories) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 1st May 1991.

(2) The Merchant Shipping (Categorisation of Registries of Overseas Territories) Order 1988 is hereby revoked.

Section 2

(1) For the purposes of section 11 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1988 (regulation of registration of ships in overseas territories by reference to categories of registers) there are hereby established the categories of registry specified in column 2 of the Schedule to this Order which shall be known by the designation specified opposite thereto in column 1 of the said Schedule.

(2) The relevant overseas territories specified in column 4 of the Schedule are hereby assigned to the categories in Column 2.

Section 3

(1) No ship affected by a restriction on registration specified in column 3 of the Schedule in relation to any category of registry shall be registered under Part I of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 in a relevant overseas territory assigned to that category.

(2) Paragraph (1) above shall be without prejudice to the operation of any provision for the time being in force under the law of any such territory as is mentioned in that paragraph by virtue of which the registration of ships under Part I of the 1894 Act in that territory is, or may be, further restricted.