
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 1st April 1998.
2 

(1) The Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 1996 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”.
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In regulation 15 of the Merchant Shipping (Port Waste Reception Facilities) Regulations 1997 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 1998We consent to the making of these Regulations
Jim Dowd
Bob Ainsworth
Two of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
3rd March 1998