{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-passenger-ships-on-domestic-voyages-regulations-2000/regulation-7A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-passenger-ships-on-domestic-voyages-regulations-2000/regulation-7A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2687",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-passenger-ships-on-domestic-voyages-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/7A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7A",
  "heading": "Stability requirements for ro-ro passenger ships",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 7B(2), a ro-ro passenger ship of Class A or B, and a ro-ro passenger ship of Class C the keel of which is laid or which is at a similar stage of construction on or after 1st October 2004, shall carry a certificate, issued as respects a United Kingdom ship by the Secretary of State and as respects any other ship by the administration of the ... third country whose flag it flies, which:\n(a) confirms that the ship complies with Article 4 of and Annex I to Directive 2003/25/EC, taking into account in such compliance the guidelines set out in Annex II to Directive 2003/25/EC in so far as those guidelines are practicable and compatible with the design of that ship, and\n(b) indicates the highest value of significant wave height up to which the ship satisfies the requirements of Article 4 of and Annex I to Directive 2003/25/EC.\n(2) A ship to which paragraph (1) applies shall not operate in a sea area with a higher value of significant wave height than that shown on its certificate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 7A-7C inserted (29.11.2004) by The Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/2883), regs. 1(1), 2(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7A(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Merchant Shipping (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1221), reg. 2(b), Sch. para. 16(4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2687/regulation/7A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:13:03.462690+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."
}