Regulation 2 Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Survey and Certification) Regulations 1995I1

The Merchant Shipping (Survey and Certification) Regulations 1995^f1 are amended as follows.

In regulation 1 (citation, commencement, interpretation, modification, revocation and supplemental) —

After regulation 26 insert—

“Review

27.

(1)

The Secretary of State must from time to time—

(a)

carry out a review of regulations 1 to 26,

(b)

set out the conclusions of the review in the report, and

(c)

publish the report.

(2)

In carrying out the review the Secretary of State must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to how the 1974 SOLAS Convention is implemented in other states.

(3)

The report must in particular—

(a)

set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory system established by those regulations,

(b)

assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved, and

(c)

assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and if so the extent to which they could be achieved by a system that imposes less regulation.

(4)

The first report under this regulation must be published before the end 16th November 2017.

(5)

Reports under this regulation are afterwards to be published at intervals not exceeding five years.”.