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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-medical-certification-regulations-2010/regulation-9",
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  "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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Period of validity of medical fitness certificate",
  "text": "A medical fitness certificate is valid only from the date of the medical examination or the date of consideration by a medical referee, as appropriate, and for the following maximum periods—\n(a) in respect of a person under 18 years of age, one year,\n(b) in respect of a person of 18 years of age or over, two years,\nor, in either case, such shorter period as is specified on the certificate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/737/regulation/9",
    "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."
}