Merchant Shipping (Ships Eligible for Registration)

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta, Nru. 19,368, 15 ta’ Jannar, 2015

L.N. 22 of 2015

MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT

(CAP. 234)

Merchant Shipping (Ships Eligible for Registration)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2015

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

of the Merchant Shipping Act, the Minister for Transport and

Infrastructure, has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Merchant Shipping Citation and

(Ships Eligible for Registration) (Amendment) Regulations, 2015, scope.

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".

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 the European Union or of the European

Economic Area or of Switzerland not residing in Malta

For the purposes of these regulations, ‘residing in Malta’

shall mean a citizen of a Member State of the European Union

or of the European Economic Area or of Switzerland resident in

Malta as may be established by documentary evidence.".

Regulation 3A of the principal regulations shall be Substitutes

regulation 3A of

substituted by the following

the principal

regulations.

" Residence in

A citizen of a Member State of the

Malta.

European Union or of the European Economic

Area or of Switzerland residing in Malta shall

be qualified to own a Maltese ship or a share

therein.".

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