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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-vessels-safety-training-amendment-regulations-2004/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2169",
  "legislation_title": "The Fishing Vessels (Safety Training) (Amendment) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-vessels-safety-training-amendment-regulations-2004",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThe Regulations amend the Fishing Vessel (Safety Training) Regulations 1989 (“the 1989 Regulations”), which were made under sections 21 and 22 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 c. 39).\nThe 1989 Regulations were amended so as:\n(a) to require all fishermen to undergo training in basic health and safety;\n(b) to require experienced fishermen to undergo training in safety awareness; and\n(c) to require fishermen who were born before 1st March 1954, in addition to undergoing training in basic health and safety and safety awareness, to undergo training in basic survival at sea, basic fire fighting and prevention and basic first aid.\nA full regulatory impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business is available from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Head of Seafarer Training and Certification Branch, Bay 1/19, Spring Place, Southampton SO15 1EG (Telephone 023 8032 9231, fax 023 8032 9252).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2169/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:19:58.500791+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."
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