The Merchant Shipping (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 531

MERCHANT SHIPPING

The Merchant Shipping (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

Made

3rd March 1998

Laid before Parliament

11th March 1998

Coming into force

1st April 1998

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions in exercise of powers conferred by section 302(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, with the consent of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 1st April 1998.

Amendment of Regulations

2.—(1) The Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 1996(2) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In Part I of the Schedule—

(a) in paragraph 1, section K, for the titles and numbers—

“Merchant Shipping (Certification of Deck Officers) Regulations 1985	1306	1987/884
		1991/1819
		1995/1429
Merchant Shipping (Certification of Marine Engineer Officers and Licensing of Marine Engineer Operators) Regulations 1986	1935	1987/884
		1995/1429
Merchant Shipping (Safe Manning Document) Regulations 1992	1564”

there shall be substituted the following titles and numbers—

“Merchant Shipping (Training and Certification) Regulations 1997	348	1997/1911
Merchant Shipping (Safe Manning, Hours of Work and Watchkeeping) Regulations 1997	1320	1997/1911”;

and

(b) in paragraph 2(2)(a)—

(i) for “£23” there shall be substituted “£23.66”; and

(ii) for “£26” there shall be substituted “£26.75”.

(3) In Part VII of the Schedule—

(a) in entry (16), for “£150” there shall be substituted “£50”; and

(b) in entry (17), for “Part II” there shall be substituted “Part III”.

(4) In Part VIII of the Schedule, paragraph 3(b), in the entry in the column headed “Fee” in relation to four transfers with simple registration, for “£70” there shall be substituted “£88”.

(5) In the table in Part XII of the Schedule—

(a) for the entries listed in the column headed “Radio surveys per hour, or part thereof, of fishing vessels” there shall be substituted the following entries—

“No fee
£23.66
£47.32
£23.66
£11.83
£23.66”; and

(b) for the entries listed in the column headed “Radio surveys per hour, or part thereof, of other ships” there shall be substituted the following entries—

“No fee
£26.75
£53.50
£26.75
£13.38
£26.75”.

3.  In regulation 15 of the Merchant Shipping (Port Waste Reception Facilities) Regulations 1997(3) for “1997”, on each occasion it occurs, there shall be substituted “1996”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Glenda Jackson

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

27th February 1998

We consent to the making of these Regulations

Jim Dowd

Bob Ainsworth

Two of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

3rd March 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 1996 (the “Fees Regulations”) and the Merchant Shipping (Port Waste Reception Facilities) Regulations 1997 (the “Waste Regulations”).

In addition to amending the table of statutory instruments in Part I of the Schedule of the Fees Regulations and correcting a reference to Part III of the Register of Ships, these Regulations amend the fees to be charged for certain services as follows:

service	old fee	new fee
services in relation to the Radio Rules (as defined in the Fees Regulations) (paragraph 2(2)(a) of Part I of the Schedule)—
for fishing vessels	£23	£23.66
for other ships	£26	£26.75
registration of a ship following provisional registration by the Registrar (Part VII of the Schedule)	£150	£50
simple registration of four transfers of shares in relation to a fishing vessel (Part VIII of the Schedule)	£70	£88
waiting time prior to commencement of and during the course of a radio survey or inspection for periods in excess of one hour—
for surveys in the United Kingdom
of fishing vessels	£23	£23.66
of other ships	£26	£26.75
for surveys abroad
of fishing vessels	£46	£47.32
of other ships	£52	£53.50
for abortive visits for radio surveys in the United Kingdom, wasted time in excess of one hour and travelling time
in relation to fishing vessels	£23	£23.66
in relation to other ships	£26	£26.75
for radio surveys at unusual hours, including travelling time
on Mondays to Fridays inclusive between 6pm and 8am and all day Saturday
in relation to fishing vessels	£11.50	£11.83
in relation to other ships	£13	£13.38
on Sundays and Public Holidays
in relation to fishing vessels	£23	£23.66
in relation to other ships	£26	£26.75
(Part XII of the Schedule)

The amendment to the Waste Regulations corrects the reference to the Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 1996.

(1)

1995 c. 21.

(2)

S.I. 1996/3243, as amended by S.I. 1997/3018.

(3)

S.I. 1997/3018.