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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fire-protection-amendment-regulations-1993/schedule/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3163",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Fire Protection) (Amendment) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fire-protection-amendment-regulations-1993",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In paragraph (2) of regulation 1—\n(a) the definitions of—\n(i) “Certificate of Fitness for the Carriage of Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk”; and\n(ii) “Certificate of Fitness for the Carriage of Liquefied Gases in Bulk”;\nshall be omitted.\n(b) after the definition of “Reid vapour pressure” there shall be inserted the following definition—\n““relevant standard of a member State other than the United Kingdom”, in relation to a reference to an International Standard or a British Standard, means—\n(a) a relevant standard or code of practice of a national standards body or equivalent body of a member State other than the United Kingdom; or\n(b) a relevant international standard recognised for use in a member State other than the United Kingdom; or\n(c) a relevant specification acknowledged for use as a standard by a public authority of a member State other than the United Kingdom;\nbeing a standard, code of practice or specification which provides, in use, levels of safety, suitability and fitness for purpose equivalent to those provided by the International Standard of the British Standard;”.\n(2) In paragraph (3) of regulation 1, for the words from “shall include a reference” to the end there shall be substituted the following words—\n“shall include—\n(A) a reference to any document amending that publication which is considered by the Secretary of State to be relevant from time to time and is specified in a Merchant Shipping Notice; and\n(B) as respects a reference to a British Standard, a reference to a relevant standard of a member State other than the United Kingdom.”.\n(3) After paragraph (3) of regulation 1 there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“(3A) In these Regulations—\n(a) a reference to a ship constructed on or after a specified date is a reference to a ship the keel of which is laid or which is at a similar stage of construction on or after that date; and\n(b) where the reference to a ship so constructed is to be understood as being or including a reference to a passenger ship, the reference includes a reference to a ship which satisifies both the following requirements, that is to say—\n(i) that the keel of the ship was laid or that the ship was at a similar stage of construction before the specified date; and\n(ii) that the ship, not being a passenger ship before that date, is converted to a passenger ship, such conversion commencing on or after that date.”.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "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."
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