{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-watercraft-order-2023/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-watercraft-order-2023/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/35",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Watercraft) Order 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-watercraft-order-2023",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Appointment and powers of surveyors in relation to watercraft",
  "text": "The following provisions of the 1995 Act apply in relation to watercraft as they apply in relation to ships—\n(a) section 256 (appointment of inspectors and surveyors), as if subsections (6) to (8) were omitted;\n(b) section 258 (powers to inspect ships and their equipment, etc.), as if subsection (2) were omitted.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 12 in force at 31.3.2023, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 258 was amended by paragraph 4(2), (3) and (4) of Schedule 1 to the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 and paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 10 to the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/35/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:50:47.251594+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."
}