The Merchant Shipping (Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of Carbon Dioxide Emissions) and the Port State Control (Amendment) Regulations 2017 No. 825

Requirement to carry a document of compliance U.K.

4.—(1) Subject to paragraph (4), a ship may not enter or leave a port in the United Kingdom unless there is in force, in respect of that ship, a valid document of compliance.

(2) The valid document of compliance must be carried on board the ship.

(3) The valid document of compliance must be produced on demand by the master to the Secretary of State.

(4) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a ship which has not carried out a voyage arriving at or departing from a port [F1 in the United Kingdom] during the relevant reporting period.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 4(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Merchant Shipping (Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of Carbon Dioxide Emissions) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1388), regs. 1, 2(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)