{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-anti-fouling-systems-regulations-2024/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2024/509",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Anti-Fouling Systems) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-anti-fouling-systems-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "AFS-Certificates: ships of 400 gross tonnage and above",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), this regulation applies to a ship which is—\n(a) of 400 gross tonnage and above; and\n(b) engaged on an international voyage.\n(2) This regulation does not apply to a fixed or floating platform, a floating storage unit or a floating production storage and off-loading unit.\n(3) A ship to which this regulation applies must be subjected to—\n(a) an initial survey—\n(i) before the ship is put into service; or\n(ii) when the ship is for the first time in a dry-dock for the application of anti-fouling systems; and\n(b) a survey when the anti-fouling systems are changed or replaced,\nto ensure that the ship’s anti-fouling system complies with regulation 6 (prohibitions and requirements for ships).\n(4) An initial survey under paragraph (3)(a) or a survey under paragraph (3)(b) must be carried out in accordance with Annex 4 to the Convention, having regard to the guidelines for survey and certification of anti-fouling systems on ships contained in the Annex to the International Maritime Organization Resolution MEPC.358(78).\n(5) Subject to payment of the prescribed fee for a survey and on being notified that the surveyor—\n(a) has carried out an initial survey under paragraph (3)(a) or a survey under paragraph (3)(b); and\n(b) is satisfied at the date of the survey that the ship complies with each requirement of regulation 6 applicable to it,\na Certifying Authority must issue or endorse an AFS-Certificate in respect of that ship.\n(6) A ship must not proceed on any voyage or, if it is already on a voyage, continue on that voyage, unless there is in relation to the ship—\n(a) an AFS-Certificate issued or endorsed under paragraph (5); or\n(b) an AFS-Certificate issued prior to the coming into force of these Regulations, as required under regulation 5 of the Merchant Shipping (Anti-Fouling Systems) Regulations 2009, and which is still in force.\n(7) In this regulation—\n“Certifying Authority” has the meaning given to it in regulation 4 of the Merchant Shipping (Survey and Certification) Regulations 2015 (certifying authorities);\n“prescribed fee” means the fee prescribed by the Secretary of State under section 302 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (fees);\n“surveyor” means a surveyor appointed by a Certifying Authority, and “survey” means a survey carried out by a surveyor.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "MEPC.358(78) was adopted by the International Maritime Organization on 10th June 2022 and is available from the International Maritime Organization of 4 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7SR or found on the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office treaties database (https://treaties.fcdo.gov.uk/responsive/app/consolidatedSearch/)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2009/2796, amended by S.I. 2011/3056, 2014/3306 and 2019/311. This instrument is also revoked by these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2015/508. There are amending instruments but none is relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "The prescribed fee is found in the Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1104)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/509/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:31:01.909954+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."
}