{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-survey-and-certification-regulations-2013/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-survey-and-certification-regulations-2013/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1785",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Survey and Certification) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-survey-and-certification-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Survey of ships",
  "text": "(1) A ship falling within paragraph (2) is subject to the following surveys—\n(a) before a Maritime Labour Certificate is first issued in relation to the ship, an initial survey by a certifying authority, as set out in Merchant Shipping Notice 1848(M),\n(b) within five years of the first issue of a Maritime Labour Certificate, and thereafter at intervals which must be no more than five years, a renewal survey by a certifying authority, as set out in Merchant Shipping Notice 1848(M),\n(c) in the period between the anniversary dates of a Maritime Labour Certificate in its second and third years of validity, an intermediate survey by a certifying authority, as set out in Merchant Shipping Notice 1848(M).\n(2) A ship falls within this paragraph if it is a ship of 500 gross tonnage or over which—\n(a) is engaged in international voyages,\n(b) is operating to and from a single port in a country other than the United Kingdom, or\n(c) is operating between ports in a country other than the United Kingdom.\n(3) A ship which does not fall within paragraph (2) is subject to a survey by a certifying authority as set out in Merchant Shipping Notice 1848(M).\n(4) In this regulation, “international voyage” means a voyage from a country to a port outside such a country.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1785/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:47:30.941528+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."
}