Merchant Shipping (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2013

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
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No. S 737

Merchant Shipping Act

(CHAPTER 179)

Merchant Shipping
(Fees) (Amendment)
Regulations 2013

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 213 of the Merchant Shipping Act, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, with the approval of the Minister for Transport, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2014.

Deletion and substitution of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 of the Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations (Rg 17) is deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:

“Fees

2.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), there shall be paid to the Director in respect of the matters set out in the Schedule the fees set out opposite thereto.

(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), an owner of a ship may, at his option, pay to the Director an annual administrative fee of $600 for the ship in lieu of paying in respect of the ship all or any of the fees specified in the following Parts of the Schedule:

(a)	Part I;
(b)	items 15 and 16 of Part II;
(c)	item 5 of Part III;
(d)	Part IV;
(e)	Part VIII.

(3) If the annual administrative fee under paragraph (2) for a ship is paid by the owner of the ship after 1st January of any year, the amount payable shall be pro-rated according to the number of months remaining in that year, including the month in which the owner of the ship opts to pay the annual administrative fee.

(4) Any fee specified in paragraph (2)(a) to (e), which has been incurred in respect of a ship as at the date on which the owner of the ship opts to pay the annual administrative fee under paragraph (2) for the ship, shall —

(a)	if it has been paid as at that date, not be refundable; or
(b)	if it has not been paid as at that date, remain payable.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 98/98; S 344/98; S 216/2004; S 387/2005;S 670/2008; S 202/2010; S 682/2011; S 683/2011]

Made this 2nd day of December 2013.

LUCIEN WONG

Chairman,
Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore.

[MPA 46/02.C03.V02/AH; AG/LLRD/SL/179/2010/2 Vol. 1]

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