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The Merchant Shipping (Radio Installations) Regulations 1998

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5.—(1) Where these Regulations require that a particular fitting, material, appliance or apparatus, or type thereof, shall be fitted or carried in a ship, or that any particular provision shall be made, the Secretary of state may permit any other fitting, material, appliance or apparatus or type thereof to be fitted or carried, or any other provision to be made in that ship if he is satisfied by trial thereof or otherwise that such other fitting, material, appliance or apparatus, or type thereof, or provision, is at least as effective as that required by these Regulations.

(2) For the purpose of these Regulations, the results of verifications and tests carried out by the bodies and laboratories of any other EEA State offering suitable and satisfactory guarantees of technical and professional competence shall be accepted.

(3) The Secretary of State may exempt any individual ship or class or description of ships from any of the provisions of Part II or Part III of these Regulations, on such terms (if any) as he may specify and may, on reasonable notice, alter or cancel any such exemption.

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