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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 March 2022 - onwards

Regulation 57A Prohibition on port entry

(1) A person must not provide a ship to which this paragraph applies with access to a port in the United Kingdom, if the person knows, or has reasonable cause to suspect, that the ship is a ship to which this paragraph applies.

(2) The master or pilot of a ship to which this paragraph applies must not cause or permit the ship to enter a port in the United Kingdom if the master or pilot knows, or has reasonable cause to suspect, that the ship is a ship to which this paragraph applies.

(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) are subject to Part 7 (Exceptions)(see, in particular, regulation 61A (ships: exceptions from prohibitions on port entry)).

(4) A person who contravenes a prohibition in paragraph (1) or (2) commits an offence.

(5) Paragraphs (1) and (2) apply to -

(a) a ship owned, controlled, chartered or operated by a designated person,

(b) a ship owned, controlled, chartered or operated by persons connected with Russia,

(c) a ship flying the flag of Russia,

(d) a ship registered in Russia, or

(e) a specified ship.