Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st November 2001.

Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 1996

2. —(1) The Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 1996( 2 ) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2(1), for the entry relating to the “Marine Safety Agency” there shall be substituted:

“ “Maritime and Coastguard Agency” means the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, an executive agency of the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions; ”

and for all references in the Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 1996 to “Marine Safety Agency” there shall be substituted references to “Maritime and Coastguard Agency”.

(3) In regulation 5(2), for “£23 for fishing vessels and £26 for other ships” there shall in each case be substituted “£32”.

(4) The Schedule shall be amended as follows:

(a) In Part I—

(i) in paragraph 2(2)(a), for “£24.60 for fishing vessels and £27.90 for other ships” there shall in each case be substituted “£32.00”;

(ii) in paragraph 2(2)(b), for “£32” there shall be substituted “£50.00”.

(b) In Part XII, in the Table, for the entries listed in the first and second columns headed “ Radio surveys per hour, or part thereof, of fishing vessels ” and “ Radio surveys per hour, or part thereof, of other ships ” respectively, there shall be substituted in each column the following entries:

“ No fee

£32.00

£64.00

£32.00

£16.00

£32.00 ” .