A Boat Hire licence is required for the use of a vessel for trade or business, carried on in or from any place within Fife. It will be used for the purpose of either
- letting it on hire; or
- carrying, for reward, 12 or fewer passengers, for pleasure, recreational, educational or sporting purposes
A Boat Hire licence may relate to one or more vessels or classes of vessel.
A Boat Hire licence is not required for
- any vessel in respect of which there is in force a passenger certificate, load line certificate or load line exemption certificate under the Merchant Shipping Act 1995
- any vessel having overnight sleeping accommodation used for a continuous period of over 24 hours
- any vessel used for the purpose of instruction or training in seamanship
- any vessel exclusively used for fishing in non-tidal waters
- any vessel on any inland waterway or at any harbour owned or managed by the British Waterways Board
- any vessel with the consent of the harbour authority (within the meaning of the Harbours Act 1964) in any harbour owned or managed by them
