(1) The Registrar must refuse to register a ship if, on the basis of the information given to the Registrar by the Secretary of State or accompanying the application for registration, the ship appears to the Registrar to be a DPRK ship.
(2) The Registrar must refuse to register -
(b) a ship de-registered by a country other than the United Kingdom.
(3) The Secretary of State may direct the Registrar to terminate the registration of -
(a) a DPRK ship,
(c) a ship for the time being designated by the Security Council or the Committee as a ship in respect of which a UN Security Council Resolution provides for de-registration or de-flagging, or
(d) a ship de-registered by a country other than the United Kingdom.
(4) For the purposes of this regulation, a ship is a "DPRK ship" if -
(a) the legal title to the ship, or to any share in the ship, is vested in a person connected with the DPRK;
(b) a person connected with the DPRK has a beneficial interes
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