{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-survey-and-certification-regulations-2015/regulation-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-survey-and-certification-regulations-2015/regulation-24.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/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Prohibition on proceeding on a voyage or excursion without the appropriate certificate",
  "text": "(1) A passenger ship of Class II(A), III, IV, V, VI, VI(A), A, B, C or D shall not proceed on a voyage or excursion unless it has been surveyed and there is in force—\n(a) a Passenger Certificate appropriate to the ship's Class and applicable to that voyage or excursion; or\n(b) in the case of a ship of Class A, B, C or D, a certificate issued by a member State or an EEA State pursuant to article 11 of the Directive.\n(2) Where a certificate is issued subject to conditions, the ship shall not proceed on a voyage or excursion unless all the conditions are complied with.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 24(1)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Merchant Shipping (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1221), reg. 2(b), Sch. para. 27; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/508/regulation/24",
    "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."
}