{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-co-operation-with-search-and-rescue-services-regulations-1998/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-co-operation-with-search-and-rescue-services-regulations-1998/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1692",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Co-operation with Search and Rescue Services) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-co-operation-with-search-and-rescue-services-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Periodic testing of plan",
  "text": "(1) The plan referred to in regulation 4(1) above shall include provision for the performance of periodic exercises, to be conducted at reasonable intervals, by the ship and the appropriate search and rescue services in order to test the effectiveness of the plan.\n(2) The performance of such periodic exercises shall be undertaken only with the prior agreement of the appropriate search and rescue services.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1692/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:25:37.532544+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."
}