https://abregistry.ag Charting Your Course Sat, 15 Jan 2022 11:00:22 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://abregistry.ag/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-abyr_logo_favicon-32x32.png https://abregistry.ag 32 32 https://abregistry.ag/antigua-and-barbuda-merchant-shipping-act-2006/ Sat, 04 Jan 2020 06:41:49 +0000 http://websitetestingserver.com/adoms/?post_type=document&p=1473 This is the primary law of Antigua and Barbuda relating to the registry of ships and the maintenance of safety standards.  This act implements international rules and regulations and provides generally for the regulation of ships flying the flag of Antigua and Barbuda.

]]> https://abregistry.ag/antigua-and-barbuda-merchant-shipping-amendment-act-2006/ Fri, 04 Jan 2019 06:40:30 +0000 http://websitetestingserver.com/adoms/?post_type=document&p=1470 This amendment makes minor changes to the Primary Act, and updates some of the penalties applied under the act.

]]> https://abregistry.ag/the-antigua-and-barbuda-merchant-shipping-amendment-act-2007/ Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:57:28 +0000 http://websitetestingserver.com/adoms/?post_type=document&p=3078 This amends the Merchant Shipping Act, 2006, so as to permit the Antigua and Barbuda Department of Marine Services and Merchant Shipping to establish offices outside of Antigua and Barbuda, to allow registration for ships under construction, to establish registration fees and criteria for the refund of fees, to extend to Antigua and Barbuda the provisions of Annex VI of the International Convention to Prevent Pollution from Ships, to revise the provisions relating to births and deaths at sea and for incidental and connected purposes.

]]> https://abregistry.ag/the-antigua-and-barbuda-merchant-shipping-amendment-act-2014/ Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:20:52 +0000 http://websitetestingserver.com/adoms/?post_type=document&p=3626 This amends the Antigua and Barbuda Merchant Shipping Act, 2006, in line with developments at the International level. The main areas covered are;

• The removal of the restrictions on the registration of passenger ships and high speed craft so that these vessels types can now be registered;
• An increased choice of ports of registry for commercial and pleasure yachts plus small commercial vessels;
• Formalization of the issuance of temporary permissions where breakdowns have occurred on board ships;
• Implementation of Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims Convention;
• Implementation of Ballast Water Management Convention;
• Implementation of Anti-fouling systems Convention;
• Implementation of Bunker Oil Civil Liability Convention;
• Shipboard personnel definitions with special training and security training requirements as a result of the Manila amendments to the STCW Convention; and
• Removal of ships from the register in given circumstances.

]]> https://abregistry.ag/the-antigua-and-barbuda-merchant-shipping-amendment-act-2017/ Tue, 27 Sep 2016 17:10:40 +0000 http://www.abregistry.ag/?post_type=document&p=4889 This amendment expands the scope for the provisional registration of ships.

]]> https://abregistry.ag/the-antigua-and-barbuda-merchant-shipping-amendment-act-2018/ Thu, 14 May 2015 19:06:35 +0000 https://www.abregistry.ag/?p=35319 This amendment provides for the implementation of a Tonnage Tax on vessels registered in Antigua and Barbuda.

]]> https://abregistry.ag/the-antigua-and-barbuda-merchant-shipping-amendment-act-2020/ Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:56:55 +0000 http://www.abregistry.ag/?p=35907 This amends the  Antigua and Barbuda Merchant Shipping Act, 2006 Regulations and directives to give effect in Antigua and Barbuda to maritime conventions, Qualification to own Antigua and Barbuda ships and insertion of new sections.

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