{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-survey-and-certification-amendment-regulations-2000/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-survey-and-certification-amendment-regulations-2000/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1334",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Survey and Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-survey-and-certification-amendment-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "After regulation 2 of the principal Regulations, there shall be inserted:—\n“Validity of certain certificates\n2A (1) Except in special circumstances as determined by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, a certificate issued before 8th June 2000 by:—\n(a) an appropriate Certifying Authority, or\n(b) the government of another country in accordance with regulation 16,\nshall remain valid until it expires in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations as in force before that date, and shall for any other purpose of these Regulations be treated as though it had been issued under these Regulations as amended.\n(2) Except in special circumstances agreed by the Administration of a country to which the 1974 SOLAS Convention applies, a Convention Certificate which was issued, by or on behalf of the government of such a country, before the date on which the 1988 Protocol takes effect as respects that country shall remain valid until it expires in accordance with the provisions of that Convention.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1334/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:10:35.801827+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."
}