{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-anti-fouling-systems-regulations-2024/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-anti-fouling-systems-regulations-2024/regulation-8.json",
  "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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "AFS-Declarations: ships of less than 400 gross tonnage",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), this regulation applies to a ship which is—\n(a) less than 400 gross tonnage;\n(b) 24 metres or more in length; and\n(c) engaged on an international voyage.\n(2) This regulation does not apply to—\n(a) a fixed or floating platform, a floating storage unit or a floating production storage and off-loading unit;\n(b) a ship of less than 400 gross tonnage engaged on international voyages which has been excepted from the requirements of paragraph (3) by the Secretary of State.\n(3) A ship must not proceed on any voyage, or if it is already on a voyage continue on that voyage, unless there is in force an AFS-Declaration, and that AFS-Declaration—\n(a) is accompanied by appropriate documentation; or\n(b) contains an appropriate endorsement.\n(4) In this regulation—\n“AFS-Declaration” includes an AFS-Declaration drawn up prior to the coming into force of these Regulations, as required under regulation 6 of the Merchant Shipping (Anti-Fouling Systems) Regulations 2009, and which is still in force;\n“appropriate documentation” means a paint receipt, contractor’s invoice or other evidence of the type of anti-fouling system used on the ship;\n“length” has the same meaning as in regulation 2(1) of the Merchant Shipping (Load Line) Regulations 1998.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/2241, amended by S.I. 2000/1335; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/509/regulation/8",
    "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."
}