{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-polar-code-safety-regulations-2025/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-polar-code-safety-regulations-2025/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1234",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Polar Code) (Safety) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-polar-code-safety-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Exemptions",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may exempt a ship which does not normally engage on international voyages but is, in exceptional circumstances, required to undertake a single international voyage which includes, as part of that voyage, entering polar waters, from any requirement of these Regulations.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), in circumstances other than the circumstances specified in paragraph (1), the Secretary of State may exempt a ship or class of ship to which these Regulations apply from any requirement of these Regulations if satisfied that compliance with such requirement is either impracticable or unreasonable in the case of that ship or class of ship.\n(3) An exemption under paragraph (2) may be granted only where it is compatible with the requirements of Chapter XIV or part 1-A of the Polar Code, as the case may be.\n(4) An exemption under paragraph (1) or (2) may be granted subject to such terms as the Secretary of State considers fit to ensure the safety of the ship or class of ship.\n(5) An exemption granted under paragraph (1) or (2) may, on the giving of reasonable notice, be altered or cancelled.\n(6) An exemption granted under paragraph (1) or (2), or an alteration or cancellation under paragraph (5), must—\n(a) be in writing;\n(b) specify the date on which it takes effect; and\n(c) specify the terms, if any, on which it is given.\n(7) Where an exemption is granted subject to terms specified by the Secretary of State, the exemption ceases to have effect if any of those terms is not complied with.\n(8) For the purposes of this regulation—\n“any requirement of these Regulations” is to be interpreted as including any requirement of Chapter XIV or part 1-A of the Polar Code applicable to a ship under these Regulations;\n“international voyage” means a voyage between—\n(a) a port in the United Kingdom and a port outside the United Kingdom; or\n(b) a port in a country other than the United Kingdom, or a territory, and a port in any other country or territory, whether a Convention country or not, which is outside the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1234/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:09:13.920981+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."
}