{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-survey-and-certification-regulations-2015/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-survey-and-certification-regulations-2015/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/508",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Survey and Certification) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-survey-and-certification-regulations-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Merchant Shipping\nMade 2nd March 2015\nLaid before Parliament 9th March 2015\nComing into force 6th April 2015\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 85(1), (1B), (3) and (5) to (7) and 86(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 , and having consulted the persons referred to in section 86(4) of that Act, makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1995 c.21: sections 85 and 86 were amended by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c.28), section 8."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regulations excluded by S.I. 1998/2771, Sch. 1 Table (as substituted (6.4.2016) by The Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/353), regs. 1(1), 3(1), Sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Regulations excluded by S.I. 1998/2771, Sch. 2 Table (as substituted (6.4.2016) by The Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/353), regs. 1(1), 3(2), Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Regulations excluded by S.I. 1998/1609, Sch. Table (as substituted (6.4.2016) by The Merchant Shipping (Small Workboats and Pilot Boats) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/354), regs. 1, 4, Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Regulations excluded in part (13.12.2023) by The Merchant Shipping (Small Workboats and Pilot Boats) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1216), regs. 1(1), 5, Sch. 1 (with regs. 4, 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Regulations excluded (12.12.2025) by The Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1195), reg. 1(1), Sch. 4 (with reg. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/508/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:44:45.416098+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."
}