Extension to fishing vessels to be registered2
It is hereby directed that—
a
the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970 specified in column 1 of Part I of the Schedule to these Regulations; and
b
the provisions of the Regulations made under that Act specified in column 1 of Part II of the Schedule;
shall extend to ships of the following descriptions, that is to say, sea-going fishing vessels—
i
which are to be treated as British owned within the meaning of section 14 of the Merchant Shipping Act 19884 ; and
ii
which are eligible to be registered under Part II of the Merchant Shipping Act 1988 but are not registered, whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere;
and to masters and seamen employed in them, with such exceptions, adaptations or modifications (if any) as are specified in column 2 of that Schedule.