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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-training-and-certification-regulations-1997/regulation-4",
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  "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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Qualification as an officer",
  "text": "A person is qualified as an officer for the purposes of section 47 of the Act if he holds a certificate of competency or certificate of equivalent competency, or a certificate treated as equivalent pursuant to regulation 1(3)(a), in one of the following capacities:\n(a) (i) master;\n(ii) chief mate; or\n(iii) officer in charge of a navigational watch; or\n(b) (i) chief engineer officer;\n(ii) second engineer officer; or\n(iii) officer in charge of an engineering watch; or\n(c) radio operator.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/348/regulation/4",
    "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."
}