{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-certification-of-deck-and-marine-engineer-officers-amendment-regulations-1995/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-certification-of-deck-and-marine-engineer-officers-amendment-regulations-1995/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1429",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Certification of Deck and Marine Engineer Officers) (Amendment) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-certification-of-deck-and-marine-engineer-officers-amendment-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Certification of Marine Engineer Officers and Licensing of Marine Engine Operators) Regulations 1986",
  "text": "In regulation 9:\n(i) there shall be inserted “certificates of equivalent competency” after “Certificates of competency,”;\n(ii) paragraph (2) shall be renumbered as paragraph (2)(a), and the following sub-paragraph added as (b):\n“(b) (i) A certificate of equivalent competency shall remain valid only so long as the holder holds a valid equivalent foreign certificate.\n(ii) A certificate of equivalent competency may be issued for a limited period where the equivalent foreign certificate does not require revalidation at intervals.”;\n(iii) in paragraph (3) there shall be inserted “and certificates of equivalent competency” after “certificates of competency”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1429/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:08:31.870054+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."
}