{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-survey-and-certification-regulations-1995/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-survey-and-certification-regulations-1995/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1210",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Survey and Certification) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-survey-and-certification-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Responsibility for carrying out surveys",
  "text": "(1) Except as provided in sub-paragraph (2) below, and subject also to regulation 16, surveys of ships shall be carried out by a surveyor appointed by an appropriate Certificate Authority.\n(2) (a) In respect of surveys of radio installations:\n(i) surveys in a port in the United Kingdom in respect of passenger ships shall be carried out by a surveyor appointed by British Telecom.\n(ii) where a survey is to be carried out at a port outside the United Kingdom it shall be carried out, at the option of the shipowner, by:\n(a) a surveyor appointed by British Telecom, or\n(b) if the port is in a country or area in respect of which the Secretary of State has appointed a local surveyor, by that local surveyor, or\n(c) in accordance with regulation 16 below.\n(b) Subject to sub-paragraph (d) below, surveys:\n(i) in a port in the United Kingdom, or in the territorial waters thereof, of safety equipment of cargo ships; and\n(ii) of ro-ro passenger ships,shall be carried out by a surveyor of the Marine Safety Agency.\n(c) Surveys of passenger ships, other than ro-ro passenger ships, may be carried out in part by a surveyor appointed by another Certifying Authority authorised for that purpose by the Secretary of State.\n(d) Surveys of radio-navigational equipment may at the option of the owner be carried out by British Telecom.\n(3) Where in accordance with this regulation a survey has been carried out by a surveyor appointed by a particular appropriate Certifying Authority, the subsequent references to a Certifying Authority in relation to that survey or to any certificate issued as a result of it, are to that Certifying Authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/2418",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Survey and Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1210/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:10:08.921449+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."
}