{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-vessels-working-time-sea-fishermen-regulations-2004/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-vessels-working-time-sea-fishermen-regulations-2004/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1713",
  "legislation_title": "The Fishing Vessels (Working Time: Sea-fishermen) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-vessels-working-time-sea-fishermen-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Rest",
  "text": "(1) A worker is entitled to adequate rest.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation, “adequate rest” means that a worker has regular rest periods, the duration of which are expressed in units of time and which are sufficiently long and continuous to ensure that, as a result of fatigue or other irregular working patterns, he does not cause injury to himself, to fellow workers or to others and that he does not damage his health, either in the short term or in the longer term.\n(3) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (2), a worker’s minimum rest periods shall be–\n(a) 10 hours in any 24-hour period, and\n(b) 77 hours in any seven-day period.\n(4) The rest periods referred to in paragraph (3)(a) above may be divided into no more than two periods, one of which shall be at least six hours in length; and the interval between consecutive rest periods shall not exceed 14 hours.\n(5) Paragraphs (1) to (3) also apply to fishermen.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 7(5) added (31.12.2018) by The Merchant Shipping (Work in Fishing Convention) (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1109), regs. 1(2), 8(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1713/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:39:45.872236+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."
}