The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

16.  In regulation 87:

(a)in paragraph (1), after sub-paragraph (d) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph:

(e)if the bareboat charter ship is a fishing vessel which requires a licence to fish but at the time of registration did not have such a licence and has not acquired such a licence within 6 months of the issue of its certificate of bareboat charter registry.;

(b)in paragraph (2), after the words “certificate of bareboat charter” there shall be inserted the word “registry”.