{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-radiocommunications-amendment-regulations-2021/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-radiocommunications-amendment-regulations-2021/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2021/1316",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Radiocommunications) (Amendment) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-radiocommunications-amendment-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Performance standards",
  "text": "All radio equipment fitted on or carried in a ship must—\n(a) in relation to a United Kingdom ship, unless approved in accordance with the Merchant Shipping (Marine Equipment) Regulations 2025, be of a type approved by the Secretary of State or any person authorised by the Secretary of State; or\n(b) in relation to a non-United Kingdom ship, must conform to standards not inferior to those set out in Section 5 of Annex 1 to Merchant Shipping Notice 1874 (M+F) Amendment 4.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 9(a) substituted (5.1.2026) by The Merchant Shipping (Marine Equipment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1280), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 17 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 in force at 24.12.2021, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The standards are set out in column 2 of section 5 of Annex 1 of Merchant Shipping Notice 1874 (M+F) Amendment 4, which is available on https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/msn-1874mf-amendment-4-marine-directive-other-approval-and-standards and in hard copy from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) of Spring Place, 105 Commercial Road, Southampton SO15 1EG (telephone 020 3817 2000 and email infoline@mcga.gov.uk)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1316/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:06:45.565497+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."
}