The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Regulations 1993

PART VIII PROVISIONAL REGISTRATION

Provisional registration

64.  Where a ship which the owner intends should be registered on Part I or Part II of the Register is outside the British Islands the owner may apply to the Registrar for provisional registration, or, if the ship is at a port outside the British Islands, the owner may alternatively apply to the appropriate person for provisional registration of the ship.

Application for provisional registration

65.  An application for provisional registration shall be in a form approved by the Secretary of State and shall be accompanied by the particulars required by regulation 22(2) (Applications for registration) and regulation 24 (Applications by bodies corporate).

Scrutiny of particulars of eligibility

66.  Where application is made to the appropriate person he shall forward those particulars to the Registrar who shall, if he is satisfied that the ship is eligible for registration, notify the appropriate person accordingly.

Period of provisional registration

67.  The Registrar, on being satisfied that the ship is eligible for registration, or the appropriate person on receipt of that notification (but not otherwise), may proceed to register the ship provisionally for a period of 3 months.

Certificate of provisional registration

68.  The Registrar, or the appropriate person, shall issue to the owner of the ship a certificate of provisional registration in a form approved by the Secretary of State.The certificate shall have the effect of a certificate of registry until:—

(a) the expiration of three months from its date of issue, or

(b) the ship’s arrival in the United Kingdom, or

(c) termination by the Registrar on request from the owner, whichever shall first occur.

Provisional registration not to be renewed

69.  Where a ship has been provisionally registered once, it shall not be provisionally registered again within one year of the date of the issue of the certificate of provisional registration, except with the consent of the Registrar.

Condition of provisional registration for fishing vessels

70.  It shall be a condition of provisional registration for fishing vessels that the vessel shall not fish for profit while so registered; and if any provisionally registered vessel does fish for profit its provisional registration shall immediately thereon terminate and the owner shall as soon as practicable surrender the certificate of provisional registry to the Registrar.