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The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Regulations 1993
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- 1993 No. 3138
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108.—(1) If it is shown to the satisfaction of the Registrar that the certificate of registry [F1or permission] has been lost, stolen or destroyed or has become defaced or illegible (“the event”), he may issue to the owner a duplicate of that certificate, which shall be marked as such, and shall be of the same effect as the original.
(2) Where a duplicate certificate of registry [F1or permission] is issued the original if then available or if subsequently found or recovered shall be forthwith surrendered to the Registrar.
(3) If
(a)the port where the ship is at the time of the event, or as the case may be, where it first arrives after the event, is not in the United Kingdom, and
(b)the master of the ship or some other person having knowledge of the facts of the case makes a declaration before the appropriate person as to the loss, theft, destruction, defacement or illegibility of the certificate,
the appropriate person shall notify the Registrar.
(4) On being notified of the event and being satisfied that the ship is entitled to be issued with a duplicate certificate the Registrar shall [F2authorise the appropriate person to issue a provisional certificate, endorsed with a statement of the circumstances under which it is granted.] F3...
(5) The F4... provisional certificate shall within 10 days of the ship arriving in a port in the United Kingdom be surrendered to the Registrar, and a duplicate certificate shall be issued.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 108 inserted (29.3.2019) by The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/509), regs. 1(2), 30
F2Words in reg. 108(4) inserted (1.10.2017) by The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/879), regs. 1, 8(a)
F3Words in reg. 108(4) omitted (1.10.2017) by virtue of The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/879), regs. 1, 8(b)
F4Words in reg. 108(5) omitted (1.10.2017) by virtue of The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/879), regs. 1, 8(c)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Reg. 108 applied (with modifications) (31.3.2023) by The Merchant Shipping (Watercraft) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/35), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 paras. 1, 2
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