The Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Oil Pollution) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

5.  There shall be inserted after regulation 4 the following regulation:

“Renewal surveys

4A— (1) The owner of every United Kingdom oil tanker of 150 GRT and above, and every other United Kingdom ship of 400 GRT and above, shall cause the ship to be subject to a renewal survey within five years of the first issue of an IOPP Certificate or a UKOPP Certificate, and at intervals not exceeding five years thereafter, by a surveyor appointed by a Certifying Authority. Any application for a survey shall be accompanied by such information relating to the ship as the Certifying Authority may require for the purposes of the survey.

(2) The Certifying Authority shall upon receipt of an application for survey and any fee payable on such application cause the ship to be surveyed by a surveyor.

(3) The surveyor shall survey the ship and satisfy himself that its structure, equipment, systems, fittings, arrangements and material are in accordance with the requirements of these Regulations and that the equipment and associated pump and piping systems, including oil discharge monitoring and control systems, crude oil washing systems, oily water separating equipment and oil filtering systems are in good working order.

(4) Any renewal survey to be carried out under this regulation shall be in accordance with the procedures specified by the Secretary of State in Merchant Shipping Notice M 1076.

(5) The surveyor, if satisfied on the survey that he may properly do so, shall forward to the Certifying Authority a declaration of survey containing such particulars of the ship as are required by the Certifying Authority to enable it to issue the appropriate Certificate in respect of the ship.”.