{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-passenger-ships-safety-code-for-uk-categorised-waters-regulations-2010/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-passenger-ships-safety-code-for-uk-categorised-waters-regulations-2010/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/680",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships) (Safety Code for UK Categorised Waters) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-passenger-ships-safety-code-for-uk-categorised-waters-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Procedure to be adopted when a ship is deficient",
  "text": "(1) Where a surveyor has—\n(a) determined that the structure of a ship, or its equipment or operating procedures (including its safety management system requirements), does not or do not fully comply with the mandatory safety requirements or any alternative that has been permitted under regulation 5,\n(b) advised the owner or the master of the ship of the corrective action which the surveyor considers to be required and the time within which the surveyor considers it reasonable for that corrective action to be taken, and\n(c) informed the Secretary of State that the corrective action has not been taken within that time,\nthe Secretary of State may suspend the passenger ship safety certificate issued in respect of the ship until the corrective action is taken.\n(2) Immediately on suspending a passenger ship safety certificate under paragraph (1), the Secretary of State must give notice of the suspension to the owner and the master of the ship and the surveyor in question.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 18 in force at 6.4.2010, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/680/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:48:55.958625+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."
}