{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-survey-and-certification-amendment-regulations-2000/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-survey-and-certification-amendment-regulations-2000/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Availability of certificates and requirements for appropriate documentation",
  "text": "(1) For regulation 20 of the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the following:—\n“Availability of certificates\n20 The owner and master of every ship issued with a Convention Certificate shall ensure that it is readily available on board for examination at all times.”\n(2) In regulation 21 of the principal Regulations:\n(a) at the beginning of each sub-paragraphs (b) and (c) of paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the words “subject to paragraph (1A) below”;\n(b) after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following:—\n“(1A) In the case of a cargo ship of 500 tons gross tonnage or more engaged on international voyages, as an alternative to the certificates required by paragraph 1(b) and (c) above, a Cargo Ship Safety Certificate may be issued.”; and\n(c) in paragraph (4), for the words after “documentation which shows that” there shall be substituted the words “the ship has been surveyed for compliance with regulations 4 to 7 as though it were a United Kingdom ship”.",
  "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/8",
    "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."
}