Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Regulations 1993

5.  In regulation 7(1) (persons qualified to be owners of ships to be registered on Part I of the Register)—

(a) after sub-paragraph (e), insert—

“(ea) Commonwealth citizens;

(eb) citizens of a country listed in Schedule 6;

(ec) non-United Kingdom nationals who are settled in the United Kingdom;

(ed) bodies corporate incorporated in a Commonwealth state;

(ee) bodies corporate incorporated in a country listed in Schedule 6;”; and

(b) in sub-paragraph (g), omit the words from “and having” to “possession”.