{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-polar-code-safety-regulations-2025/schedule/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-polar-code-safety-regulations-2025/schedule/paragraph-5.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/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Merchant Shipping (Survey and Certification) Regulations 2015",
  "text": "In regulation 15 (duration and validity of certificates)—\n(a) in paragraph (1)(a), for “and a short international voyage Passenger Ship Safety Certificate” substitute “, a short international voyage Passenger Ship Safety Certificate and a Polar Ship Certificate issued in respect of a passenger ship”;\n(b) in paragraph (1)(b), for “or HSC Code Safety Certificate for Offshore Service Craft” substitute “, HSC Code Safety Certificate for Offshore Service Craft or Polar Ship Certificate issued in respect of a cargo ship”;\n(c) in paragraph (2)(a), after “Passenger Ship Safety Certificate” insert “or a Polar Ship Certificate issued in respect of a passenger ship”;\n(d) in paragraph (3)(a), after “Passenger Ship Safety Certificate” insert “or a Polar Ship Certificate issued in respect of a passenger ship”;\n(e) in paragraph (4)—\n(i) in the words before sub-paragraph (a)—\n(aa) after “periodical survey”, insert “or a survey required at the same time as any such survey under regulation 9B(2)(b)”;\n(bb) for “9A”, substitute “9B”.\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (b), after “9A” insert “or a survey required at the same time as any such survey under regulation 9B(2)(b)”;\n(iii) in sub-paragraph (c)—\n(aa) after “periodical surveys”, insert “, or a survey required at the same time as any such survey under regulation 9B(2)(b)”;\n(bb) for “9A”, substitute “9B”;\n(f) in paragraph (6)(b), for “9A” substitute “9B”;\n(g) after paragraph (6), insert—\n“(7) In this regulation, “1988 Protocol” means the Protocol of 1988 to the SOLAS Convention.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The 1988 Protocol (Cm 5044) can be obtained in hard copy from the International Maritime Organization of 4 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7SR or found on the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office treaties database at https://treaties.fco.gov.uk/awweb/pdfopener?md=1&did=69573. A hard copy of the Command Paper is available for inspection free of charge but by appointment at the Parliamentary Archives, Houses of Parliament, London SW1A 0PW; the Parliamentary Archives catalogue number for Cm 5044 is HL/PO/JO/10/11/3156/2280."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1234/schedule/paragraph/5",
    "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."
}