{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-accident-reporting-and-investigation-regulations-2026/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-accident-reporting-and-investigation-regulations-2026/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/430",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Accident Reporting and Investigation) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-accident-reporting-and-investigation-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Chief Inspector’s power to disclose evidence to another investigating authority",
  "text": "(1) The Chief Inspector may provide access to relevant evidence to an investigating authority where the Chief Inspector is satisfied that the investigating authority would be entitled by an enactment, or, in the case of an investigating authority exercising powers under paragraph (3)(g), under common law, to collect that evidence for the purposes of that authority’s own investigation into the accident.\n(2) The disclosure of relevant evidence under paragraph (1) does not breach—\n(a) any obligation of confidence owed by the Chief Inspector, or\n(b) any other restriction on the disclosure of information (however imposed).\n(3) In this regulation—\n“investigating authority” means—\n(a) a person who is a member of—\n(i) a police force in England and Wales,\n(ii) the Police Service of Northern Ireland,\n(iii) the Police Service of Northern Ireland Reserve, or\n(iv) the Police Service of Scotland,\n(b) the MCA,\n(c) the Health and Safety Executive,\n(d) the Health and Safety Executive of Northern Ireland,\n(e) a coroner,\n(f) any other person exercising statutory powers to investigate an accident, or\n(g) in Scotland, a procurator fiscal or the Lord Advocate exercising a power conferred on that person at common law to investigate an accident;\n“relevant evidence” means—\n(a) any equipment, item, object or substance relevant to the accident;\n(b) photographs or images from the scene of the accident;\n(c) evidence of a type falling within regulation 15(2)(g).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/430/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:02:30.543392+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."
}