{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-anti-fouling-systems-regulations-2024/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-anti-fouling-systems-regulations-2024/regulation-9.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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Cancellation of a certificate",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may cancel an AFS-Certificate issued in respect of a United Kingdom ship where there is reason to believe that—\n(a) the certificate was issued on the basis of false or erroneous information; or\n(b) since any survey required by these Regulations, any coating referred to in regulation 6(2)(b) or 6(4)(b) (coatings forming a barrier to prevent an organotin compound which acts as a biocide, or cybutryne, leaching from underlying non-compliant anti-fouling systems) and borne by the ship has sustained damage or is otherwise deficient.\n(2) The Secretary of State may require an AFS-Certificate that has been—\n(a) cancelled under paragraph (1); or\n(b) issued in respect of a United Kingdom ship but which has ceased to be valid,\nto be surrendered.\n(3) No person may—\n(a) intentionally alter a certificate;\n(b) intentionally make a false certificate;\n(c) knowingly or recklessly provide false information in connection with any survey required by these Regulations;\n(d) with intent to deceive, use or lend a certificate or permit a certificate to be used by another person;\n(e) fail to surrender a certificate when required to do so pursuant to paragraph (2); or\n(f) in Scotland, forge a certificate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/509/regulation/9",
    "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."
}