The Merchant Shipping (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2025

Made: 16th October 2025

Laid before Parliament: 20th October 2025

Coming into force: 11th November 2025

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 302(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995[^f00001], and with the consent of the Treasury, makes the following Regulations.

Citation, commencement and extent

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 and come into force on 11th November 2025.

• (2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Amendment of Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 2018

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• (1) The Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 2018[^f00002] are amended as follows.

• (2) For regulation 1(2) (citation, commencement and expiry) of the Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 2018, substitute—

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), these Regulations cease to have effect at the end of the period of ten years beginning with the day on which they come into force. (3) These Regulations, so far as they relate to the entry for the Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards of Safety Communications) Regulations 1997 in Schedule 1, in Part 1, in the table in paragraph 5, in section A, fourth row, cease to have effect at the end of the period of seven years beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Keir Mather — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Transport — 16th October 2025

We consent to the making of these Regulations

Taiwo Owatemi — Christian Wakeford — Two of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury — 13th October 2025

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Explanatory Note

These Regulations amend the Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1104) (“the Fees Regulations”).

Regulation 2(2) amends the Fees Regulations generally to extend their application by a further three years until 12th November 2028, except in relation to a fee which is now otiose.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen. An Explanatory Memorandum is published alongside this instrument on www.legislation.gov.uk.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1995 c. 21.

[^f00002]: S.I. 2018/1104. A relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2025/1088. There are other amending instruments which are not relevant to these Regulations.