{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-port-state-control-regulations-1995/regulation-15",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/3128",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Port State Control) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-port-state-control-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Reports from pilots and port authorities",
  "text": "(1) A United Kingdom pilot, engaged in the berthing or unberthing of a ship to which this Part of these Regulations applies in the United Kingdom, or engaged on such a ship bound for a port within a member State, shall immediately inform;\n(a) in the case of an authorised pilot, the port authority authorising the pilot, who shall immediately inform The Coastguard Agency for onward transmission to the Marine Safety Agency, or;\n(b) in the case of other pilots;\n(i) The Coastguard Agency for onward transmission to the Marine Safety Agency; or\n(ii) the competent authority of another member State,\nas appropriate, whenever they learn in the course of their normal duties that there are deficiencies which may prejudice the safe navigation of the ship, or which may pose a threat of harm to the marine environment.\n(2) In paragraph (1), “United Kingdom pilot” means a pilot authorised pursuant to the Pilotage Act 1987 and any pilot boarding a ship in United Kingdom waters (as defined in section 313(2)(a) of the Act.)\n(3) If a port authority, when exercising its normal duties, learns that such a ship within its port has deficiencies which may prejudice the safety of the ship or poses an unreasonable threat of harm to the marine environment, that authority shall immediately inform the Marine Safety Agency.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1987 c. 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/2198",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Port State Control) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 1998"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/3128/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:56:52.884381+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."
}