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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-vessels-ec-directive-on-harmonised-safety-regime-regulations-1999/regulation-15",
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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/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Exemptions",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may exempt any United Kingdom fishing vessel which embodies features of a novel kind from any of the requirements of Chapters II, III, IV, V, and VII of the Annex to the Torremolinos Protocol as modified by Schedule 3 hereto, the application of which might seriously impede research into the development of such features and their incorporation in vessels. Any such vessel shall, however, comply with safety requirements which, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, are adequate for the service for which it is intended and are such as to ensure the overall safety of the vessel.\n(2) The Secretary of State may exempt any United Kingdom fishing vessel engaged solely in fishing near the coast of the United Kingdom from any of the requirements of these Regulations if he consider that their application is unreasonable and impracticable in view of the distance of the vessel’s operating area from its port of departure in the United Kingdom, the type of vessel, the weather conditions and the absence of general navigational hazards, provided that it complies with safety requirements which, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, are adequate for the service for which it is intended and are such as to ensure the overall safety of the vessel.",
  "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": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/1112",
      "affecting_title": "The Fishing Vessels (EC Directive on Harmonised Safety Regime) (Amendment) Regulations 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2998/regulation/15",
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  },
  "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."
}