Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 23rd March 2015.

Interpretation

2. In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Merchant Shipping Act 1995;

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

“the Wrecks Convention” means the Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks 2007 done in Nairobi on 18 May 2007( 2 ).

Fees payable to the Agency: wreck removal insurance

3. The fee payable to the Agency on an application for the issue of a certificate under section 255N( 3 ) of the Act (which relates to wreck removal insurance satisfying the requirements of the Wrecks Convention) is £31.

Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 2006

4. In Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 2006( 4 ), Section B Crew Accommodation in the Table in paragraph 1 is amended by substituting for the entry relating to the Merchant Shipping (Crew Accommodation) Regulations 1997 an entry comprising—

(a) in column (1), “Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Minimum Requirements for Seafarers etc. ) Regulations 2014”; and

(b) in column (2), “2014/1613”.