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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-merchant-shipping-standards-of-training-certification-and-watchkeeping-regulations-2022/regulation-39",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2022/9780348240368",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping) Regulations 2022",
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  "path": "regulation/39",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Additional requirements for a certificate of equivalent competency",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State must not issue a certificate of equivalent competency to an applicant under regulation 36 (recognition of a certificate issued by an EEA State), 37 (recognition of a certificate issued by a third party State) or 38 (recognition of a party to the STCW Convention) unless that applicant can demonstrate adequate knowledge of the English language as required by sections A-II/1, A-II/4, A-III/1 and A-IV/2 of the STCW Code (adequate knowledge of the English language).\n(2) A certificate of equivalent competency issued under regulation 36, 37 or 38 must be in the form specified in section A-I/2, paragraph 3, of the STCW Code (form of certificate).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2022/9780348240368/regulation/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:44:31.055001+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."
}