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# The Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) (Amendment) Regulations 2025

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in SI 2025/278 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
2025 No. 369
MERCHANT SHIPPING
The 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.

## 1 Citation, commencement and extent {#regulation-1}

(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.

## 2 Amendments to the Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Regulations 2025 {#regulation-2}

(1) The Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Regulations 2025 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.
.