{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-merchant-shipping-port-state-control-regulations-2026/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2026/9780348280098",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Port State Control) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-merchant-shipping-port-state-control-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Initial inspections and more detailed inspections",
  "text": "(1) In carrying out an initial inspection of a ship the inspector must as a minimum—\n(a) check the certificates and documents listed in Annex 10 of the Paris MOU;\n(b) verify, where appropriate, that outstanding deficiencies found during a previous inspection carried out by a member state have been rectified;\n(c) check that the overall condition of the ship, including the hygiene of the ship, and including the engine room and accommodation, is satisfactory.\n(2) A more detailed inspection must be carried out if—\n(a) there are clear grounds for believing during the course of an initial inspection, that the condition of a ship or of its equipment or crew does not substantially meet the relevant requirements of a Convention, or\n(b) the flag State for the ship is not a signatory to the Conventions.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2) and regulation 8(2), clear grounds exist when the inspector finds evidence which in the inspector’s professional judgement warrants a more detailed inspection of the ship, its equipment or its crew.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Examples of clear grounds are set out in paragraph 6 of Annex 9 to the Paris MOU."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348280098/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:37:45.200804+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."
}