{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-merchant-shipping-marine-equipment-regulations-2025/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-merchant-shipping-marine-equipment-regulations-2025/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348275520",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Marine Equipment) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-merchant-shipping-marine-equipment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Affixing the United Kingdom conformity mark",
  "text": "(1) The manufacturer must, at the end of the production stage, affix the United Kingdom conformity mark to—\n(a) each item of equipment—\n(i) for which a United Kingdom conformity approval has been granted;\n(ii) which is equipment listed in Annex 6 of Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1874 and which has been approved by the United States Coast Guard and granted a US conformity assessment examination certificate; or\n(b) a data plate attached to that equipment; and\nwhere relevant, embed the United Kingdom conformity mark in the equipment's software.\n(2) Where it is not possible or practicable due to the nature of the item of equipment to affix the United Kingdom conformity mark in accordance with paragraph (1), it must be affixed to—\n(a) the packaging of the item of equipment;\n(b) a label on the item of equipment or its packaging; or\n(c) a document distributed with the item of equipment.\n(3) The United Kingdom conformity mark must be—\n(a) in the form specified in Annex 5 of Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1874;\n(b) affixed so that it is visible, legible and indelible; and\n(c) followed by—\n(i) the identification number of the approved body which approved the equipment where that body is involved in the production control phase and the year in which the mark was affixed; or\n(ii) where equipment listed in Annex 6 of Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1874 has been approved by the United States Coast Guard and granted a US conformity assessment examination certificate, the identification number assigned to the United States Coast Guard by the Secretary of State and the year in which the mark was affixed.\n(4) Where the number of the approved body is to be affixed under paragraph (3)(c)(i), it must be affixed by—\n(a) the approved body itself; or\n(b) the manufacturer on instruction of the approved body.\n(5) No person may affix a mark or inscription which is likely to mislead any person with regard to the meaning or the graphics of the mark.\n(6) In this regulation “production control phase” means the phase of production during which the manufacturer ensures that each item of equipment complies with its United Kingdom conformity approval in accordance with Parts 2 (module D), 3 (module E), 4 (module F) or 5 (module G) of Schedule 2.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348275520/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:38:36.122638+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}