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The Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

Type Statutory-Instrument
Publication 1998-02-26
State In force
Department Queen's Printer of Acts of Parliament
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Made: 26th February 1998

Laid before Parliament: 10th March 1998

Coming into force: 1st April 1998

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 205(5) of the Merchant Shipping Act 19951 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

1

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

2

In Part IV of Schedule 2 to the Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Regulations 19972, in paragraph (10), for the words “involved in land defences and/or” there shall be substituted the words “engaged solely in harbour maintenance, dredging, building or maintenance of sea defences or”.

Signed

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 — 26th February 1998

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

This Order amends the Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Regulations 1997. Apart from minor drafting changes, the amendment provides that vessels engaged solely in harbour maintenance or dredging are exempt from light dues whether or not they are involved in sea defences or land reclamation.

Footnotes

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S.I. 1997/562.

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