{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-medical-certification-regulations-2010/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-medical-certification-regulations-2010/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/737",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Medical Certification) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-medical-certification-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Fitness certificates: Code vessels and domestic passenger vessels",
  "text": "(1) If a person has been issued with a certificate of medical fitness which is specified by the Secretary of State in Merchant Shipping Notice 1839(M) as equivalent to a medical fitness certificate for work on a Code vessel or a domestic passenger vessel, then (unless that person is the master of a domestic passenger vessel) that certificate is for the purposes of regulations 6, 7, 12 and 13 equivalent to a medical fitness certificate, but only as respects that person's work on that type of vessel.\n(2) In paragraph (1)—\n“Code vessel” means a vessel which—\n(i)operates under a Code of Practice, and\n(ii)does not go more than 60 miles from a harbour or shelter of any kind which affords entry (subject to prudence in the weather conditions prevailing) and protection from the force of weather, and\n“domestic passenger vessel” means a ship which is of Class VI or Class VI(A) as defined in the Merchant Shipping (Life Saving Appliances for Passenger Ships of Classes III to VI(A)) Regulations 1999 .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 10(1) substituted (7.8.2014) by The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Consequential and Minor Amendments) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1614), regs. 1, 13(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/2723, amended by S.I. 2000/2687 and S.I. 2001/2642."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/737/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:48:19.476561+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."
}