Merchant Shipping Act 1950

2 Where regulations made under section one of this Act become applicable—

(a) to a fishing boat under construction of which the keel was laid before the date on which those regulations came into force;

(b) to a fishing boat registered in the United Kingdom under Part I or Part IV of the principal Act after that date, not being a fishing boat to which such regulations applied while she was under construction,

or where any such fishing boat as is mentioned in the preceding paragraph is re-registered, altered or repaired as mentioned in that paragraph, then, if, upon application made to him by the owner of the fishing boat, the Minister is satisfied, after consultation with the owner of the fishing boat or an organisation or organisations appearing to the Minister to be representative of owners of British fishing boats, and with an organisation or organisations appearing to the Minister to be representative of seamen employed in British fishing boats, that such steps, if any, as are reasonable and practicable have been taken for securing compliance with the construction requirements of the regulations in the case of the fishing boat, he shall certify accordingly.