{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fire-protection-ships-built-before-25th-may-1980-amendment-regulations-1993/schedule/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3164",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Fire Protection) (Ships Built Before 25th May 1980) (Amendment) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fire-protection-ships-built-before-25th-may-1980-amendment-regulations-1993",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In paragraph (2) of regulation 1—\n(a) after the definition of “Administration” there shall be inserted the following definition–\n““approved” means approved by the Secretary of State;”;\n(b) for the definition of “Certificate of Fitness for the Carriage of Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk” there shall be substituted the following definition—\n““Chemical tanker” means a tanker constructed or adapted and used for the carriage in bulk of any liquid product of a flammable nature listed in Chapter VI of the Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk;”;\n(c) after the definition of “Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk” there shall be inserted the following definition—\n““Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk” means the code so entitled adopted by the International Maritime Organization by Resolution A.328 (IX);”;\n(d) after the definition of “fishing vessel” there shall be inserted the following definitions—\n““Gas carrier” means a tanker constructed or adapted and used for the carriage in bulk of any liquefied gas or other substance of a flammable nature listed in either—\n(a) Chapter XIX of the Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk; or\n(b) Chapter XIX of the Gas Carrier Code for Existing Ships;\nwhichever Code is applicable;\n“Gas Carrier Code for Existing Ships” means the 1976 edition of the International Maritime Organization’s Code for Existing Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk as amended by the four sets of amendments adopted by the Maritime Safety Committee of the Organization in, respectively, April 1978, May 1979, May 1980, and November 1984;”;\n(e) 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 or the British Standard;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3164/schedule/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:44:19.795167+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."
}