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These Regulations amend the Merchant Shipping (Medical Examination) Regulations 1983. The principal changes are to regulation 9, to enable an approved medical practitioner to suspend or cancel a medical fitness certificate if, when the certificate was issued the seafarer could not in fact have met the appropriate medical standards, or if the certificate when issued was incorrect.