{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-training-and-certification-regulations-1997/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-training-and-certification-regulations-1997/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/348",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Training and Certification) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-training-and-certification-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Mandatory minimum requirements for the issue of certificates of proficiency in survival craft, rescue boats and fast rescue boats.",
  "text": "(1) (a) Every person designated to launch or take charge of survival craft or rescue boats other than fast rescue boats shall have a certificate of proficiency in such craft.\n(b) No person shall be granted such a certificate unless he meets the criteria specified in Regulation VI/2.1 in the Annex to the STCW Convention.\n(2) (a) Every person designated to launch or take charge of a fast rescue boat shall have a certificate of proficiency in such boats.\n(b) No person shall be granted such a certificate unless he meets the criteria in Regulation VI/2.2 in the Annex to the STCW Convention.\n(3) In this regulation\n“fast rescue boat” means a rescue boat which is—\n(a) not less than 6 metres in length and not more than 8.5 metres in length; and\n(b) capable of manoeuvring, for at least 4 hours, at a speed of at least 20 knots in calm water with a suitably qualified crew of 3 persons and at least 8 knots with a full complement of persons and equipment; and\n“survival craft” and “rescue boat” have the same meaning as in the Merchant Shipping (Life Saving Appliances) Regulations 1986",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1066, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/348/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:25:28.589270+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."
}