{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-minimum-requirements-for-seafarers-etc-regulations-2014/regulation-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-minimum-requirements-for-seafarers-etc-regulations-2014/regulation-55.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1613",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Minimum Requirements for Seafarers etc.) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-minimum-requirements-for-seafarers-etc-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/55",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Inspection of non-United Kingdom ships with MLC documentation",
  "text": "(1) A relevant inspector may—\n(a) review a ship's Maritime Labour Certificate and Declaration of Maritime Labour Compliance or the ship's interim Maritime Labour Certificate; and\n(b) where Standard A5.2.1 of the MLC (inspections in port) applies, carry out a more detailed inspection in accordance with that Standard.\n(2) Where a relevant inspector has power to inspect a ship under paragraph (1)(b), regulation 54 applies to the relevant inspector as if—\n(a) in paragraphs (1) and (3), for the words “checking compliance with these Regulations” there were substituted “ carrying out an inspection under regulation 55(1)(b) ”; and\n(b) in paragraph (3), for the words “to which this regulation applies”, in both places where they appear, there were substituted “ to which regulation 55(1)(b) applies ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1613/regulation/55",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:12:29.056253+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."
}