{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-vessels-safety-provisions-rules-1975/article-81",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-vessels-safety-provisions-rules-1975/article-81.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1975/330",
  "legislation_title": "The Fishing Vessels (Safety Provisions) Rules 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-vessels-safety-provisions-rules-1975",
  "path": "article/81",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "81",
  "heading": "Requirements for vessels less than 12 metres in length",
  "text": "Every vessel of less than 12 metres in length to which these Rules apply shall carry:—\n(a) lifebuoys at least equal in number to half the total number of persons on board and in no case less than two lifebuoys;\n(b) a buoyant heaving line at least 18 metres in length shall be attached to one lifebuoy;\n(c) not less than six red star distress signals each of which shall be capable of emitting two or more red stars either together or separately at or to a height of not less than 45 metres; each such star shall burn with a luminosity of at least 5,000 candelas for not less than five seconds.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/330/article/81",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:14:59.180322+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."
}