PART XI U.K.REGISTRATION OF SMALL SHIPS

Persons qualified to be the owners of a small ship to be registered on Part III of the Register U.K.

89.  The following persons are entitled to be the owners of a small ship to be registered on Part III of the Register:—

[F1 (a)(i) British citizens; or

(ii) non-United Kingdom nationals exercising their right of freedom of movement of workers or right of establishment;]

(b) British Dependent Territories citizens;

(c) British Overseas Citizens;

(d) persons who under the British Nationality Act 1981 are British subjects;

(e) persons who under the Hong Kong (British Nationality) Order 1986 are British Nationals (Overseas); F2 ...

(f) Commonwealth citizens not falling within those paragraphs [F3 ; and

(g) non-United Kingdom nationals who are settled in the United Kingdom]

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 89(a) substituted (1.1.1999) by The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/2976), regs. 1, 17

F2 Word in reg. 89(e) omitted (29.3.2019) by virtue of The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/509), regs. 1(2), 25(a)

F3 Reg. 89(g) and word inserted (29.3.2019) by The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/509), regs. 1(2), 25(b)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Reg. 89 applied (31.3.2023) by The Merchant Shipping (Watercraft) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/35), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 1

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 89 in force at 21.3.1994, see reg. 1(1)