The Merchant Shipping (Work in Fishing Convention) (Survey and Certification) Regulations 2018.

Inspection of United Kingdom fishing vessels

10.—(1) For the purpose of checking compliance with these Regulations other than regulations 12 to 14, a relevant inspector or a proper officer may at all reasonable times go on board a United Kingdom fishing vessel and inspect the vessel, its equipment, any articles and any document carried on it.

(2) Subsections (1A), (3) and (5) of section 258(1) of the Act (powers to inspect ships and their equipment, etc) apply in relation to paragraph (1) as if references in those subsections to “subsection (1) above” and “this section” were references to paragraph (1).

(3) Sections 259(1), (2), (5), (7) and (9) to (12) and 260(1) and (2) of the Act (powers of inspectors in relation to premises and ships, and supplementary provisions) apply in relation to the inspection of a fishing vessel for the purposes of checking compliance with these Regulations as they apply in relation to the inspection of a ship for the purposes of checking compliance with the Act, as if—

(a) references in those sections to “this Act” were to these Regulations;

(b) for section 259(1)(b) there were substituted a reference to any fishing vessel to which this regulation applies;

(c) in section 259(2)(h)(iii) the words “or any instrument made under it” were omitted; and

(d) in section 259(5), the reference to “subsections (2) and (4) above for the purposes of Chapter II of Part VI” were to “subsection (2) above”, and the reference to “those subsections” were to “that subsection”.

(4) Any Regulations made under subsection (8) of section 259 or subsection (3) of section 260 of the Act apply for the purposes of the provisions of those sections as applied by paragraphs (2) and (3) as they apply for the purposes of the Act.

(5) Sections 261 to 266 of the Act (improvement notices and prohibition notices) apply for the purposes of these Regulations as if the meaning of “the relevant statutory provisions” in section 261(4) was included these Regulations.

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Subsection 1A was inserted by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c.28), Schedule 1 paragraph 4.