{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-certification-of-deck-and-marine-engineer-officers-amendment-regulations-1995/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-certification-of-deck-and-marine-engineer-officers-amendment-regulations-1995/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Certification of Deck Officers) Regulations 1985",
  "text": "In regulation 6:\n(i) in paragraph (1) “paragraphs (3) and (4)” shall be substituted for “paragraph (3)”;\n(ii) in paragraph (1)(a) there shall be inserted “or certificate of equivalent competency” after “certificate of competency”;\n(iii) in the tailpiece to paragraph (1) all the words after “Secretary of State” shall be replaced by:\n“either—\n(i) in relation to certificates of competency or certificates of equivalent competency, or either of such certificates with a command endorsement in general; or\n(ii) in relation to any of such certificates of a particular class as may be so specified.”;\n(iv) in paragraph (3) there shall be added “a certificate of equivalent competency” after “certificate of competency,”;\n(v) there shall be added the following paragraph—\n“(4) (a) This paragraph applies where, pursuant to regulation 5(1), the Secretary of State has recognised the standard of competence required for the issue of a certificate by an authority of some country outside the United Kingdom as being in part the standard to be obtained for deck officers qualified for the purposes of these Regulations.\n(b) In such cases any conditions specified by the Secretary of State for the issue of a certificate of equivalent competency shall be limited to—\n(i) an aptitude test for the purpose of assessing the applicant’s ability to pursue the profession of deck officer on United Kingdom ships, in the light of subjects and training and related assessment procedures, which differ substantially from those covered by the applicant’s equivalent certificate, necessary to pursue that profession; or\n(ii) in the case of applicants who are EEA nationals (at the applicant’s option except as provided in M Notice No. M 1558), an adaptation period, as specified by the Secretary of State.”.",
  "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/8",
    "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."
}