{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010-work-on-ships-and-hovercraft-regulations-2011/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010-work-on-ships-and-hovercraft-regulations-2011/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/1771",
  "legislation_title": "The Equality Act 2010 (Work on Ships and Hovercraft) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010-work-on-ships-and-hovercraft-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Application of Part 5 of the Act to seafarers working wholly or partly in Great Britain and adjacent waters",
  "text": "(1) Part 5 of the Act applies to a seafarer who works wholly or partly within Great Britain (including 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.\n(2) Part 5 of the Act, except in relation to the protected characteristic of marriage and civil partnership, also applies to a seafarer who works wholly or partly within Great Britain (including United Kingdom waters adjacent to Great Britain) and who is on—\n(a) a ship registered in or entitled to fly the flag of an EEA State other than the United Kingdom, or\n(b) a hovercraft registered in an EEA State ...,\nif paragraph (3) applies.\n(3) This paragraph applies if—\n(a) the ship or hovercraft is in United Kingdom waters adjacent to Great Britain,\n(b) the seafarer is a British citizen, or a national of an EEA State ... or of a designated state, and\n(c) the legal relationship of the seafarer's employment is located within Great Britain or retains a sufficiently close link with Great Britain.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(2)(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Merchant Shipping (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1221), reg. 2(b), Sch. para. 22(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1771/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:01:12.540971+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."
}