LegalizeThe Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) (Amendment) Regulations 2025
Made: 19th March 2025
Laid before Parliament: 21st March 2025
Coming into force: 31st March 2025
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 205(5) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995[^f00001].
Citation, commencement and extent
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- (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 and come into force on 31st March 2025.
- (2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Amendments to the Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Regulations 2025
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- (1) The Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Regulations 2025[^f00002] are amended as follows.
- (2) In regulation 2 (interpretation), in the definition of “light dues”, for “s.205” substitute “205”.
- (3) In Schedule 1 (vessels exempt from light dues), for paragraph 2, substitute—
(2) Ships of less than 20 tons, other than ships liable to pay light dues by reference to their length.
Signed
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Mike Kane — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Transport — 19th March 2025
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
Explanatory Note
These Regulations amend the Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/278) (the “Principal Regulations”).
Regulation 1 provides that these Regulations come into force on 31st March 2025. The amendments to the Principal Regulations therefore come into effect before the Principal Regulations come into force on 1st April 2025.
Regulation 2 amends Schedule 1 to the Principal Regulations. Schedule 1 specifies certain vessels which are exempt from light dues under the Principal Regulations. Regulation 2 of these Regulations amends one of these exemptions so that it is expressed by reference to the weight, rather than the length, of the vessel. Regulation 2 also corrects a minor typographical error in the Principal Regulations.
A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen. The Explanatory Memorandum is published alongside these Regulations at www.legislation.gov.uk.
Footnotes
[^f00001]: 1995 c. 21.
[^f00002]: S.I. 2025/278.
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