The Merchant Shipping (Registration, etc.) Act 1993 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1993

Qualification as owner to continue for certain purposes

4.—(1) Where any person—

(a) was immediately before 21st March 1994 qualified to be an owner of a British ship and, as such, was the owner or one of the owners of, or of a majority interest in, a ship registered under Part I of the 1894 Act or under section 5 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1983(1) (registration of small ships); but

(b) as from that date is, in consequence of regulations made under sections 2 and 3 of the 1993 Act, no longer a person qualified to be an owner of a British ship,

he shall nevertheless be treated as a person so qualified for the purposes specified in sub-paragraph (2) below.

(2) Those purposes are—

(a) the continuation in force and renewal of the ship’s registration under registration regulations made under the 1993 Act;

(b) so long as that registration continues in force, any other purposes of any statutory provision so far as having effect in relation to the ship.

(1)

1983 c. 13.