{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-merchant-shipping-standards-of-training-certification-and-watchkeeping-regulations-2022/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-merchant-shipping-standards-of-training-certification-and-watchkeeping-regulations-2022/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2022/9780348240368",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-merchant-shipping-standards-of-training-certification-and-watchkeeping-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Engine-room watch duties",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to a seafarer performing watchkeeping duties in a manned or periodically unmanned engine room on a ship whose main propulsion machinery has a propulsion power of not less than 350 kilowatts, but less than 750 kilowatts.\n(2) The seafarer must—\n(a) hold one of the engineering certificates of competency referred to in regulation 7 (qualification as an officer); or\n(b) be the holder of—\n(i) a marine engine operator’s licence or a senior marine engineer operator’s licence issued by the Secretary of State in compliance with the criteria specified in section 10 of Merchant Shipping Notice 1857 (M+F) Amendment 1; or\n(ii) a marine engine operator’s licence issued by the Secretary of State in compliance with the criteria specified in section 3.3 of Merchant Shipping Notice 1859 (M+F) Amendment 1 or section 3 of Merchant Shipping Notice 1904 (M+F).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Merchant Shipping Notice 1857 (M+F) Amendment 1, Merchant Shipping Notice 1859 (M+F) Amendment 1 and Merchant Shipping Notice 1904 (M+F) can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-marine-notices-to-accompany-the-proposed-merchant-shipping-standards-of-training-certification-and-watchkeeping-regulations-2022 and in hard copy from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency of Spring Place, 105 Commercial Road, Southampton SO15 1EG (telephone 020 3817 2000 and email infoline@mcga.gov.uk) and on https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/maritime-and-coastguard-agency."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2022/9780348240368/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:44:31.055001+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."
}