# The Merchant Shipping (Survey and Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 2000, Regulation 8: Availability of certificates and requirements for appropriate documentation


(1) For regulation 20 of the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the following:—
“Availability of certificates
20 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.”
(2) In regulation 21 of the principal Regulations:
(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”;
(b) after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following:—
“(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
(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”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1334/regulation/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-survey-and-certification-amendment-regulations-2000/regulation-8
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