http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1293/article/9/made

The Merchant Shipping (Ministry of Defence Commercially Managed Ships) Order 1992

Armed forces

King's Printer of Acts of Parliament

2015-02-25

MERCHANT SHIPPING

SHIPS AND SHIPOWNERS

This Order makes provision for the registration as British ships, for the purposes of the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1988 (the Acts), of a special class of Government ships, namely those in the service of the Ministry of Defence the commercial management of which the Secretary of State for Defence has entrusted to some other person pursuant to a contract.