{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-vessels-safety-training-amendment-regulations-2004/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-vessels-safety-training-amendment-regulations-2004/regulation-4.json",
  "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": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the 1989 Regulations",
  "text": "For regulation 2 of the 1989 Regulations there shall be substituted the following—\n“2. (1) No person, other than a certificated deck officer or a certificated engineer officer, shall be employed or engaged on or after 1st January 2005 on a fishing vessel registered in the United Kingdom unless he is the holder of a certificate or certificates issued by the Sea Fish Industry Authority certifying:–\n(a) that he has undergone an Approved Training Course in each of the following subjects–\n(i) basic survival at sea,\n(ii) basic fire-fighting and prevention,\n(iii) basic first aid, and\n(iv) basic health and safety.\nor\n(b) if he is the holder of a certificate of competency as a skipper or second hand issued pursuant to section 414 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 that he has undergone an Approved Training Course in basic survival at sea and basic fire fighting and prevention.\n(2) No experienced fisherman shall act as master of a fishing vessel or be employed or engaged on a fishing vessel registered in the United Kingdom unless he is the holder of a certificate or certificates certifying that he has undergone an Approved Training Course in Safety Awareness.\n(3) Any such certificate issued by the Sea Fish Industry Authority shall be in such form as the Secretary of State shall direct.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1894 c. 60. Section 414 was repealed by the Merchant Shipping Act 1970"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2169/regulation/4",
    "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."
}