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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-vessels-ec-directive-on-harmonised-safety-regime-regulations-1999/regulation-14",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2998",
  "legislation_title": "The Fishing Vessels (EC Directive on Harmonised Safety Regime) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-vessels-ec-directive-on-harmonised-safety-regime-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Penalties",
  "text": "(1) Any contravention of regulation 6 or 7 shall be an offence by the owner and skipper, punishable on summary conviction by a maximum fine of an amount not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(2) If any United Kingdom fishing vessel goes, or attempts to go, to sea without a valid certificate referred to in regulation 10 above then the owner and skipper shall each be guilty of an offence, punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum and on conviction on indictment by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years and a fine.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3210",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Radio) (Fishing Vessels) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3210",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Radio) (Fishing Vessels) Regulations 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2998/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:11.500592+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."
}