The Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1981
These Regulations provide that a country to which the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 1974 applies shall be treated up to and including the 30th April 1982 for the purposes of the Merchant Shipping Act 1964 and the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1977, as if it were a country to which the Protocol of 1978 relating to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 1974 applies. The Regulations also provide for the continued acceptance for a limited time of certain certificates issued under the 1974 Convention in respect of ships not registered in the United Kingdom as if they had been issued under the Protocol of 1978.