{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-certification-of-ships-cooks-regulations-1981/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1981/1076",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Certification of Ships' Cooks) Regulations 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-certification-of-ships-cooks-regulations-1981",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Certificate equivalent to a Certificate of Competency",
  "text": "The Secretary of State may specify that the standard of competence to be attained by ships' cooks may be the standard of competence required for the issue of a certificate of competency by an authority empowered in that behalf by the laws of a country outside the United Kingdom, and that a certificate issued by any such authority shall be treated as evidence of the attainment of a standard of competence equivalent to the standard required for the issue of a certificate of competency under these Regulations:\nProvided that any certificate issued by any such authority to any such ship's cook which is expressed to remain in force for a definite period shall remain in force, unless renewed, only until the expiration of that period.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/1076/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:35:37.261476+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."
}