{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-vessels-life-saving-appliances-regulations-1988/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-vessels-life-saving-appliances-regulations-1988/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/38",
  "legislation_title": "The Fishing Vessels (Life-Saving Appliances) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-vessels-life-saving-appliances-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Equivalents and exemptions",
  "text": "(1) Where these Regulations require that a particular device, mechanism, material, appliance, standard, or type thereof, shall be fitted and carried in the vessel, or that any particular provision should be made, the Secretary of State may permit any other device, mechanism, material, appliance, standard, or type thereof, to be fitted or carried, or any other provision to be made in that ship if he is satisfied by trial thereof or otherwise that such other device, mechanism, material, appliance, standard or type thereof, or provision is at least as effective as that required by these Regulations.\n(2) The Secretary of State may exempt any vessel or description of vessel from all or any of the provisons of these Regulations (as may be specified in the exemption) if he is satisfied that compliance with such provision is either impracticable or unreasonable in the case of that vessel or description of vessels on such terms (if any) as he may specify and may, subject to giving reasonable notice, alter or cancel any such exemption.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/38/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:13:22.239282+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."
}