{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-vessels-safety-provisions-rules-1975/schedule-14/paragraph-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-vessels-safety-provisions-rules-1975/schedule-14/paragraph-10.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": "schedule/14/paragraph/10",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The minimum thickness of the metal used in the construction of the compass shall be as follows:—\nCompass bowl\n4·0 millimetres\nBinnacle\n3·85 millimetres\nLamp\n3·85 millimetres\nThe compass bowl shall be efficiently stiffened to take gimbal pins. The binnacle shell shall be swaged or spun into the base ring and soldered all round.\nThe gimbal ring shall be of naval brass or other rigid non-magnetic metal 15 millimetres by 3 millimetres. Gimbal pins shall be of naval brass or other hard non-magnetic material of 6 millimetres diameter: both they and the bearings in which they engage shall be perfectly smooth.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "replaced",
      "affecting": "uksi/1978/1873",
      "affecting_title": "The Fishing Vessels (Safety Provisions) (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1978"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1981/567",
      "affecting_title": "The Fishing Vessels (Safety Provisions) (Amendment) Rules 1981"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/330/schedule/14/paragraph/10",
    "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."
}