{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-port-state-control-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-port-state-control-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1636",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Port State Control) (Amendment) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-port-state-control-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of Merchant Shipping (Port State Control) Regulations 1995",
  "text": "For regulation 5 there shall be substituted—\n“Inspection Commitments\n5. (1) The total number of inspections of the ships referred to in paragraph (2) and regulation 7 which shall be carried out annually by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency shall correspond to at least 25% of the average annual number of individual ships which entered United Kingdom ports, calculated on the basis of the three most recent calendar years for which statistics are available.\n(2) (a) The Maritime and Coastguard Agency shall, subject to the provisions of regulation 7A, ensure that an inspection in accordance with regulation 6 is carried out on any ship which is not subject to an expanded inspection and has a target factor greater than 50 in the Sirenac information system, provided that a period of at least one month has elapsed since the last inspection carried out in a port in the MOU region.\n(b) In selecting other ships for inspection, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency shall determine the order of priority as follows:\n(i) the first ships to be selected for inspection shall be those listed in Annex 1, Part I of MSN 1775, irrespective of their target factor;\n(ii) the ships listed in Annex I, Part II of MSN 1775 shall be selected in decreasing order, depending on the order of priority resulting from the value of their target factor ranges as referred to in the Sirenac information system.\n(3) For the purposes of carrying out any inspection referred to in paragraph (2), the inspector shall consult the public and private databases relating to ship inspection accessible through the Equasis information system.\n(4) The Maritime and Coastguard Agency shall refrain from inspecting a ship which has been inspected by the competent authority of any member State in accordance with the Council Directive within the previous six months, provided that—\n(a) the ship is not in a category listed in Annex 1 of MSN 1775; and\n(b) no deficiencies have been reported following a previous inspection; and\n(c) no clear grounds exist for carrying out an inspection; and\n(d) the ship is not covered by paragraph (2)(a).\n(5) The provisions of paragraph (4) shall not apply to any of the operational controls specifically provided for in the Convention enactments.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1636/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:21:09.833640+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."
}