{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-polar-code-safety-regulations-2025/schedule/paragraph-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-polar-code-safety-regulations-2025/schedule/paragraph-11.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": "schedule/paragraph/11",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Merchant Shipping (Survey and Certification) Regulations 2015",
  "text": "In regulation 23 (prohibition on proceeding to sea without the appropriate documentation), after paragraph (5B) insert—\n“(5C) No United Kingdom ship which intends to operate in polar waters and to which regulation 10 of the Polar Code Safety Regulations applies (requirements for passenger ships and cargo ships of 500 gross tonnage or more), may proceed to sea unless there is in force a Polar Ship Certificate.\n(5D) No ship which is not a United Kingdom ship which intends to commence a voyage from a port in the United Kingdom and as part of that voyage intends to operate in polar waters, may proceed to sea from that port unless there is in force—\n(a) in the case of a ship registered in a country to which the SOLAS Convention applies, a Polar Ship Certificate; or\n(b) in the case of a ship registered in a country to which the SOLAS Convention does not apply, a certificate that demonstrates compliance with each requirement of the Polar Code referred to in regulation 10(2) of the Polar Code Safety Regulations that applies to it.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1234/schedule/paragraph/11",
    "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."
}