{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-safety-convention-transitional-provisions-regulations-1981/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-safety-convention-transitional-provisions-regulations-1981/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/584",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-safety-convention-transitional-provisions-regulations-1981",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Any 1974 certificate which—\n(a) relates to a ship registered in a country in respect of which the Protocol of 1978 takes effect on a date later than the 1st May 1981; and\n(b) is in force on such later date\nshall be treated, with effect from such later date and so long as it remains in force, as if it were an accepted Safety Convention certificate within the meaning of the Acts.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/584/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:40:34.723628+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."
}