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Check customs rules for private individuals who leave the UK in their pleasure craft and travel to other countries.
Find out the procedures you'll need to follow to zero rate VAT for the supply of a sailaway boat.
Check what safety requirements and insurance are needed to use a boat on UK rivers, canals, or at sea - boat safety certificates, safety regulations and equipment, disposing of old flares
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PM Rishi Sunak's press statement on the next stage of the plan to stop the boats.
Class and permitted use of passenger ships, cargo ships, tankers, tugs, tenders, fishing boats, yachts, commercial vessels, and the required certificates.
Before you sail to or from the UK, submit your voyage plan with details of your vessel, people and goods on board. Find out how to change or cancel your report.
River conditions and restrictions and safety information for boaters on the Rivers Wye and Lugg.
Navigation on the River Thames may be restricted or closed in certain areas. Find out where and when these restrictions and closures are.
Boat registration, boat safety and river levels
Bridge heights and profiles, locks and facilities for boaters on the River Medway.
How ship security is managed in the UK, and how to comply with UK regulations on ship security.
Information for migrants on the risks and realities of travelling to the UK through dangerous or illegal routes, and the safe and legal alternatives.
The Prime Minister’s plan to stop the boats is beginning to work, with small boat arrivals to the UK down by 20% this year.
Find out the VAT liability for supplying ships, trains, aircraft and associated services in the UK.
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