Part IV General

50 Application to unregistered ships.

1

The Secretary of State may make regulations specifying any description of unregistered ships and directing that such of the provisions of sections 30, 31 and 33 as may be specified in the regulations—

a

shall extend to unregistered ships of that description, or

b

shall so extend in such circumstances as may be so specified,

with such modifications (if any) as may be so specified.

2

Subsection (1) shall not be construed as prejudicing the application to unregistered ships of section 30(1)(a) or section 33(2)(a)(ii).

3

In this section “unregistered ship” means a ship which is not registered in the United Kingdom or elsewhere.