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The Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Oil Pollution) Regulations 1996

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Annual Survey

5.—(1) The owner of every United Kingdom ship in respect of which an IOPP Certificate has been issued shall, so long as the certificate remains in force, cause the ship to be subject to an annual survey, which shall be carried out within three months before or after the anniversary date of the IOPP Certificate, provided that no annual survey shall be required when the intermediate survey pursuant to regulation 6 is carried out within three months before or after the anniversary date of the IOPP Certificate.

(2) The surveyor shall survey the ship in accordance with the procedures specified in Merchant Shipping Notice M 1076 and satisfy himself—

(a)that those parts of the ship and its equipment specified in that Merchant Shipping Notice which are the subject of the survey remain efficient; and

(b)that no material alterations have been made in the structure, equipment, systems, fittings, arrangements and materials to which the IOPP Certificate relates without the approval of the Secretary of State.

(3) On completion of the survey the surveyor shall, if it is in order to do so, endorse the IOPP Certificate to that effect.

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