Merchant Shipping (Ships Eligible for Registration)

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 18,903, 20 ta’ April, 2012

L.N. 124 of 2012

MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT

(CAP. 234)

Merchant Shipping (Ships Eligible for Registration)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2012

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 4(1)(c) and 374

of the Merchant Shipping Act, the Minister for Infrastructure,

Transport and Communications, has made the following regulations:-

(1)

The title of these regulations is the Merchant Citation and

Shipping (Ships Eligible for Registration) (Amendment) Regulations, commencement.

2012 and these regulations shall be read and construed as one with the

Merchant Shipping (Ships Eligible for Registration) Regulations, S.L. 234.23

hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

(2) These regulations shall be deemed to have come into force

on the 1 st January, 2012.

Paragraph (b) of the definition "international owner" in Amends

regulation 2 of the principal regulations shall be substituted by the regulation

the principal

following

regulations.

"(b)

a citizen of a Member State of the

European Union not residing in Malta

For the purposes of these

regulations, ‘residing in Malta’ means a citizen

of a Member State of the European Union

holding a valid registration certificate as issued

under the provisions of the European Union

Act;".

Immediately before regulation 4 in Part II of the principal Adds new

regulation 3A to

regulations, there shall be added the following new regulation

the principal

regulations.

A citizen of a Member State of the

"European

Citizen

European Union residing in Malta, shall be qualified to

residing

in Malta.

own a Maltese ship or a share therein.".

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