No representative person for ship of under 24 metres
5. Where a ship was registered immediately before 21st March 1994, and the person or (as the case may be) each of the persons by whom the majority interest is owned, was not resident in the United Kingdom but by reason of the ship’s being less than 24 metres in length the ship is entitled to be registered without a representative person being appointed in relation to the ship then notwithstanding anything contained in regulations made under section 3 of the 1993 Act it shall not be necessary for a representative person to be appointed in relation to the ship, for so long as the registered owners remain those on the register immediately before 21st March 1994.