{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-international-safety-management-ism-code-regulations-1998/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-international-safety-management-ism-code-regulations-1998/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1561",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (International Safety Management (ISM) Code) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-international-safety-management-ism-code-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Issue and endorsement of Safety Management Certificate by another government",
  "text": "The Secretary of State may request, through a proper officer or otherwise, the government of a country to which SOLAS applies—\n(a) to conduct an audit of the safety management system operated onboard a United Kingdom ship, and\n(b) if satisfied that the requirements of the ISM Code are complied with, to issue to the ship a Safety Management Certificate or authorise such issue or, where appropriate endorse such certificates in accordance with the requirements of SOLAS after intermediate audit. A certificate issued in accordance with such a request shall contain a statement that it has been so issued and shall have the same effect as if it was issued by the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1561/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:26:40.624106+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."
}