{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-survey-and-certification-regulations-2015/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-survey-and-certification-regulations-2015/regulation-21.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": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Cancellation of a certificate",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may cancel a certificate issued to a United Kingdom ship where there is reason to believe that—\n(a) the certificate was issued on false or erroneous information; or\n(b) since any survey required by these Regulations, the structure, equipment or machinery has sustained damage or is otherwise deficient.\n(2) The Secretary of State may require that a certificate issued to a United Kingdom ship which has expired or has been cancelled be surrendered.\n(3) No person shall—\n(a) intentionally alter a certificate referred to in these Regulations;\n(b) intentionally make a false certificate referred to in these Regulations;\n(c) in connection with any survey required by these Regulations, knowingly or recklessly furnish false information;\n(d) with intent to deceive, use, lend, or allow to be used by another, a certificate referred to in these Regulations; or\n(e) fail to surrender a certificate required to be surrendered under paragraph (2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/508/regulation/21",
    "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."
}