{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-polar-code-safety-regulations-2025/schedule/paragraph-2",
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  "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/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Merchant Shipping (Survey and Certification) Regulations 2015",
  "text": "In regulation 3 (interpretation)—\n(a) in paragraph (1)—\n(i) after the definition of “anniversary date”, insert—\n““Antarctic Area” has the meaning given to it in regulation 1 of Chapter XIV;\n“Arctic waters” has the meaning given to it in regulation 1 of Chapter XIV;”;\n(ii) after the definition of “Certifying Authority”, insert—\n““Chapter XIV” means Chapter XIV in the Annex to the SOLAS Convention (safety measures for ships operating in polar waters) and includes the amendments adopted by IMO Resolution MSC.532(107);”;\n(iii) in the definition of “Convention Certificate”, at the end, insert “and, except in regulation 23(2) (availability of certificates on board a ship registered in a country to which the SOLAS Convention applies), includes a Polar Ship Certificate”;\n(iv) after the definition of “HSC Code Safety Certificate for Offshore Service Craft”, insert—\n““IMO” means the International Maritime Organization, which is a special agency of the United Nations responsible for shipping safety and security and the prevention of pollution;”;\n(v) after the definition of “pleasure vessel”, insert—\n““Polar Code” means the International Code for Ships Operating in Polar Waters as described in regulation 1 of Chapter XIV (safety measures for ships operating in polar waters) and includes the amendments adopted by IMO Resolution MSC.538(107);\n“Polar Code Safety Regulations” means the Merchant Shipping (Polar Code) (Safety) Regulations 2025;\n“Polar Ship Certificate” means the certificate of that description, including the record of equipment, contained in Appendix 1 to the Polar Code and which confirms that a ship complies with each requirement of part 1-A of the Polar Code (safety measures) applicable to it and issued in respect of—\n(a) a United Kingdom ship pursuant to regulation 13B (issue of Polar Ship Certificate); or\n(b) a ship flying the flag of a State other than the United Kingdom which is a party to the SOLAS Convention, by that State;\n“polar waters” means Arctic waters and the Antarctic Area;”;\n(vi) for the definition of “SOLAS Convention”, substitute—\n““SOLAS Convention” means the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974.”;\n(b) after paragraph (3), insert—\n“(4) In these Regulations, any reference to Chapter XIV, the Polar Code or the SOLAS Convention is to be construed—\n(a) as a reference to Chapter XIV, the Polar Code or the SOLAS Convention as modified from time to time; and\n(b) as, if Chapter XIV, the Polar Code or the SOLAS Convention is replaced, a reference to the replacement.\n(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4), Chapter XIV, the Polar Code or the SOLAS Convention is modified or replaced if the modification or replacement takes effect in accordance with Article VIII of the SOLAS Convention.\n(6) A modification or replacement of Chapter XIV, the Polar Code or the SOLAS Convention has effect at the time such modification or replacement comes into force in accordance with Article VIII of the SOLAS Convention.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2025/1234."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1234/schedule/paragraph/2",
    "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."
}