{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-merchant-shipping-marine-equipment-regulations-2025/regulation-23",
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  "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/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Defective equipment",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may—\n(a) direct an economic operator to withdraw or recall defective equipment from the market;\n(b) prohibit or restrict the extent to which an economic operator may make available on the market defective equipment; or\n(c) prohibit or restrict the use of defective equipment on ships.\n(2) Before issuing a direction, prohibition or restriction, the Secretary of State must notify any economic operator in writing of the intention to do so and give the economic operator not less than 10 days, to make written representations.\n(3) The Secretary of State may withdraw or vary a direction, prohibition or restriction.\n(4) A direction, prohibition or restriction under paragraph (1), or a withdrawal or variation of a direction, prohibition or restriction under paragraph (3), must—\n(a) be in writing;\n(b) specify the date on which it is to take effect; and\n(c) specify the grounds for the decision.\n(5) In this regulation “defective equipment” means equipment to which regulation 5 applies, and which complies with the standards which apply to it under regulation 5, but which, in the opinion of the Secretary of State may—\n(a) compromise the health and safety of the ship's crew, passengers or other persons; or\n(b) adversely affect the marine environment.",
  "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/23",
    "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."
}