{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/docks-regulations-1988/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/docks-regulations-1988/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1655",
  "legislation_title": "The Docks Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/docks-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Transport by water",
  "text": "(1) No vessel shall be used to transport a person at work to or from any working place unless the vessel is safe.\n(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1) vessels used for this purpose shall be—\n(a) of a sound and suitable construction;\n(b) properly equipped;\n(c) properly maintained;\n(d) in the charge of a competent person;\n(e) neither overcrowded nor overloaded; and\n(f) subject to paragraph (3), currently certified as suitable by a competent person in a certificate containing such particulars as are approved in writing for the time being by the Health and Safety Executive for the purposes of this regulation.\n(3) Paragraph (2)(f) shall not apply to a vessel in respect of which there is in force a certificate as to a survey carried out pursuant to section 271 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894.\n(4) The current certificate referred to in paragraph (2)(f) shall be kept by the owner of the vessel.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1894 c. 60; subsections (1) and (3) of section 271 were substituted by section 17(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1964 (c. 47) and paragraph 3, Part VII of Schedule 6 to the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 (c. 39), respectively, and subsection (2) was amended by section 17(1) of the said 1964 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1655/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:57:36.751718+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}