{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-equality-act-2010-work-on-ships-and-hovercraft-regulations-2011/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-equality-act-2010-work-on-ships-and-hovercraft-regulations-2011/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2011/9780111511411",
  "legislation_title": "The Equality Act 2010 (Work on Ships and Hovercraft) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-equality-act-2010-work-on-ships-and-hovercraft-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Application of Part 5 of the Act to seafarers working wholly outside Great Britain and adjacent waters",
  "text": "(1) Part 5 of the Act applies to a seafarer who works wholly outside Great Britain and United Kingdom waters adjacent to Great Britain if the seafarer is on—\n(a) a United Kingdom ship and the ship’s entry in the register maintained under section 8 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 specifies a port in Great Britain as the ship’s port of choice, or\n(b) a hovercraft registered in the United Kingdom and operated by a person whose principal place of business, or ordinary residence, is in Great Britain,\nand paragraph (2) applies.\n(2) This paragraph applies if—\n(a) the seafarer is a British citizen, or a national of an EEA State other than the United Kingdom or of a designated state, and\n(b) the legal relationship of the seafarer’s employment is located within Great Britain or retains a sufficiently close link with Great Britain.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2011/9780111511411/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:53:33.054819+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."
}