{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-gas-carriers-regulations-1994/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-gas-carriers-regulations-1994/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2464",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Gas Carriers) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-gas-carriers-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Surveys",
  "text": "A United Kingdom gas carrier shall be subject to the following surveys:\n(a) before the ship is put in service, or before an International Certificate of Fitness for the Carriage of Liquefied Gases in Bulk is first issued in relation to the ship, an initial survey as set out in section 1.5.2 of the IGC Code,\n(b) within five years of the first issue of an International Certificate of Fitness for the Carriage of Liquefied Gases in Bulk, and thereafter at intervals which, subject to regulations 6A(3) and 6B(3) to (6) shall be no more than five years, a renewal survey as set out in section 1.5.2 of the IGC Code,\n(c) within three months before or after the second or third anniversary date of an International Certificate of Fitness for the Carriage of Liquefied Gases in Bulk being issued, an intermediate survey as set out in section 1.5.2 of the IGC Code,\n(d) within three months before or after each anniversary date of the issue of the ship’s International Certificate of Fitness for the Carriage of Liquefied Gases in Bulk, other than when an intermediate survey is required to be carried out within that period, an annual survey as set out in section 1.5.2 of the IGC Code, and\n(e) after a repair resulting from investigations prescribed in regulation 5(4) below, or whenever any important repairs or renewals are made, an additional survey as set out in section 1.5.2 of the IGC Code.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 4-6B substituted for regs. 4-6 (20.4.2004) by The Merchant Shipping (Gas Carriers) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/929), regs. 1(1), 5"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2464/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:25:45.007581+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."
}