{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-prevention-of-air-pollution-from-ships-regulations-2008/regulation-2A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-prevention-of-air-pollution-from-ships-regulations-2008/regulation-2A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2924",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Air Pollution from Ships) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-prevention-of-air-pollution-from-ships-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/2A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2A",
  "heading": "Ambulatory reference",
  "text": "(1) Any reference in these Regulations to the Convention, an Annex to the Convention, the Polar Code or relevant IMO Guidelines is to be construed—\n(a) as a reference to the Convention, an Annex to the Convention, the Polar Code or relevant IMO Guidelines as modified from time to time; and\n(b) as, if the Convention, an Annex to the Convention, the Polar Code or relevant IMO Guidelines are replaced, a reference to the replacement.\n(2) for the purposes of paragraph (1)—\n(a) the Convention, an Annex to the Convention or the Polar Code is modified or replaced if a modification or replacement takes effect in accordance with Article 16 (amendments) of the Convention;\n(b) relevant IMO Guidelines are modified or replaced if a modification or replacement takes effect in accordance with the 1948 Convention on the International Maritime Organisation.\n(3) A modification or replacement of the Convention, and Annex to the Convention or the Polar Code has effect at the time such modification or replacement comes into force in accordance with Article 16 of the Convention.\n(4) A modification or replacement of relevant IMO Guidelines has effect at the time such modification or replacement comes into force in accordance with the terms of the Resolution of the Maritime Environment Protection Committee of the IMO under which it is adopted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 2A substituted (24.4.2023) by The Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Air Pollution from Ships) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/384), regs. 1(1), 2(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2924/regulation/2A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:22:14.188237+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."
}