{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1992-29/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1992-29/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1992/29",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 92/29/EEC of 31 March 1992 on the minimum safety and health requirements for improved medical treatment on board vessels",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1992-29",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Directive, the following terms shall have the following meanings:\n(a) vessel: any vessel flying the flag of a Member State or registered under the plenary jurisdiction of a Member State, seagoing or estuary-fishing, publicly or privately owned, excluding:\ninland navigation vessels,\nwarships,\npleasure boats used for non-commercial purposes and not manned by professional crews,\ntugs operating in harbour areas.\nVessels shall be classed in three categories in accordance with Annex I;\n(b) worker: any person carrying out an occupation on board a vessel, including trainees and apprentices, but excluding port pilots and shore personnel carrying out work on board a vessel at the quayside;\n(c) Owner: the registered owner of a vessel unless that vessel has been chartered by demise or is managed, either wholly or in part, by a natural or legal person other than the registered owner under the terms of a management agreement; in that case the owner shall be construed as the demise charterer or natural or legal person managing the vessel as appropriate;\n(d) medical supplies: medicines, medical equipment and antidotes, a non-exhaustive list of which is given in Annex II;\n(e) antidote: a substance used to prevent or treat a harmful effect or effects, direct or indirect, of one or more substances included on the list of dangerous substances in Annex III.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1992/29/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:23.034157+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."
}