{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-cargo-ship-construction-regulations-1997/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-cargo-ship-construction-regulations-1997/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1509",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Cargo Ship Construction) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-cargo-ship-construction-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Application",
  "text": "This Part applies to every ship of 100 metres or over in sub-division length constructed on or after 1st February 1992 and to every ship of 80 metres or over in subdivision length constructed on or after 1st July 1998,, except any ship which complies with—\n(a) regulation 25 of Annex 1 of MARPOL;\n(b) the International Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk;\n(c) the International Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk;\n(d) the Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk;\n(e) the Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk;\n(f) the Guidelines for the Design and Construction of Offshore Supply Vessels;\n(g) the Code for the Safety of Special Purpose Ships; or\n(h) both with the damage stability requirements of regulation 27 of the International Load Line Convention 1966 as modified by IMO Resolutions A.320(IX) and 514(13) and, in the case of ships to which paragraph (9) of that regulation applies, with paragraph (12)(f) of Resolution A.320(IX); ...\n(i) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 14 inserted (5.4.1999) by The Merchant Shipping (Cargo Ship Construction) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/643), regs. 1, 5(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 14(g) inserted (5.4.1999) by The Merchant Shipping (Cargo Ship Construction) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/643), regs. 1, 5(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 14(h) omitted (5.4.1999) by virtue of The Merchant Shipping (Cargo Ship Construction) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/643), regs. 1, 5(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 14(i) omitted (5.4.1999) by virtue of The Merchant Shipping (Cargo Ship Construction) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/643), regs. 1, 5(2)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 14 in force at 11.7.1997, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1509/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:07:02.970396+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."
}