{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-radiocommunications-amendment-regulations-2021/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-radiocommunications-amendment-regulations-2021/schedule-2/paragraph-5.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": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“AIS” means automatic identification system;\n“DSC” means Digital Selective Calling being a technique using digital codes which enables a radio station to establish contact with, and transfer information to, another station or group of stations, and complying with the relevant recommendations as specified in Section 5 of Annex 1 to Merchant Shipping Notice 1874 (M+F) Amendment 4;\n“EPIRB” means an emergency position indicating radio beacon capable of transmitting a distress alert ... through the COSPAS/SARSAT polar orbiting satellite service operating in the 406 MHz band;\n“mobile-satellite service” means a radiocommunication service between—\n(a)mobile earth stations and one or more space stations, or between space stations used by this service; or\n(b)mobile earth stations by means of one or more space stations,\nand this service may also include feeder links necessary for its operation;\n“satellite EPIRB” means an EPIRB which is in the mobile-satellite service.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2 para. 5 omitted (29.3.2023) by virtue of The Merchant Shipping (Cargo and Passenger Ship Construction and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/246), regs. 1(1), 20"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 5 in force at 24.12.2021, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Merchant Shipping Notice 1874 (M+F) Amendment 4 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/schedule/2/paragraph/5",
    "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."
}