{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-radio-installations-regulations-1998/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-radio-installations-regulations-1998/schedule-2/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2070",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Radio Installations) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-radio-installations-regulations-1998",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Weekly",
  "text": "(a) The proper operation of the DSC facilities shall be tested at least once a week by means of a test call, when within communication range of a coast station fitted with DSC equipment. Where a ship has been out of communication range of a coast station fitted with DSC equipment for a period of longer than one week, a test call shall be made on the first opportunity that the ship is within communication range of such a coast station.\n(b) Where the reserve source of energy is not a battery (for example, a motor generator), the reserve source of energy shall be tested weekly.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2 in force at 28.9.1998, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2070/schedule/2/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:20:32.773936+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."
}