
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Ships' Names) (Amendment) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st December 1988.
2 
The Merchant Shipping (Ships' Names) Regulations 1979 shall be amended as follows:
(1) After regulation 2 a new regulation 2A shall be inserted as follows:“
2A 
In these Regulations “registry” and “registered” mean respectively registry under, and registered under Part I of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894.”;
(2) The proviso to regulation 3 shall be deleted.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Michael Portillo
Minister of State,
Department of Transport
2nd November 1988Philip Nash
Commissioner, Customs & Excise
4th November 1988