The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Registration of ships in the United Kingdom

77.—(1) The Registrar must refuse to register a ship if, on the basis of the information given to the Registrar by the Secretary of State or accompanying the application for registration, the ship appears to the Registrar to be a DPRK ship.

(2) The Registrar must refuse to register—

(a) a specified ship;

(b) a ship de-registered by a country other than the United Kingdom.

(3) The Secretary of State may direct the Registrar to terminate the registration of—

(a) a DPRK ship,

(b) a specified ship,

(c) a ship for the time being designated by the Security Council or the Committee as a ship in respect of which a UN Security Council Resolution provides for de-registration or de-flagging, or

(d) a ship de-registered by a country other than the United Kingdom.

(4) For the purposes of this regulation, a ship is a “DPRK ship” if—

(a) the legal title to the ship, or to any share in the ship, is vested in a person connected with the DPRK;

(b) a person connected with the DPRK has a beneficial interest in the ship or in any share in the ship; or

(c) a person connected with the DPRK is a charterer of the ship on bareboat charter terms.

(5) In this regulation, “bareboat charter terms” has the meaning given by section 17(11) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995.

(6) For the purposes of this regulation—

(a) any reference to registering a ship is to registering the ship in the register of British ships maintained by the Registrar;

(b) a ship is “de-registered by a country other than the United Kingdom” if, in compliance with paragraph 12 of resolution 2397 (de-registration of ships involved in breaches of sanctions), the entry relating to the ship has been removed from a register of ships maintained in a country other than the United Kingdom.