The Merchant Shipping (Medical Stores) (Fishing Vessels) Regulations 1988

Medicines and Medical Stores Already on Board

4.—(1) It shall be sufficient compliance with regulation 3 for there to be kept, in place of any instrument or appliance thereby required to be kept on board the vessel, an instrument or appliance designed to fulfil the same function, for so long as it remains in good serviceable condition, if it was kept on board the vessel on the date on which these Regulations come into operation.

(2) In the case of a vessel which, on the date on which these Regulations come into operation, is on a voyage, there may be kept on board the vessel, in place of the medicines and other medical stores required by regulation 3 to be kept on board it, such medicines and other medical stores as it would be required to have on board if the Regulations referred to in regulation 1(2) had not been revoked; but this paragraph shall cease to apply to a vessel at the time it arrives at a port in the United Kingdom or at the expiration of six months from the date on which these Regulations come into operation, whichever shall be the earlier.