The Merchant Shipping (Radio Installations) Regulations 1998

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• (1) The Secretary of State must from time to time—

• (a) carry out a review of the regulatory provision contained in these Regulations; and

• (b) publish a report setting out the conclusions of the review.

• (2) The first report must be published before 24th December 2026.

• (3) Subsequent reports must be published at intervals not exceeding 5 years.

• (4) Section 30(4) of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 requires that a report published under this regulation must, in particular—

• (a) set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory provision referred to in paragraph (1)(a);

• (b) assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved;

• (c) assess whether those objectives remain appropriate; and

• (d) if those objectives remain appropriate, assess the extent to which they could be achieved in another way which involves less onerous regulatory provision.

• (5) In this regulation, “regulatory provision” has the same meaning as in sections 28 to 32 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (see section 32 of that Act).