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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-accident-reporting-and-investigation-regulations-1994/regulation-16",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2013",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Accident Reporting and Investigation) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-accident-reporting-and-investigation-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Penalties",
  "text": "(1) If a master, owner or officer fails without reasonable cause to report an accident, serious injury or dangerous occurrence, as required by regulation 5, or if a master or owner so fails to provide information as required by regulation 6, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(2) If any person fails without reasonable cause to comply with regulation 7 above, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum and on conviction on indictment to a fine.\n(3) If any person discloses or permits to be disclosed information in contravention of regulation 9(5) above, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2013/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:28:29.238749+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."
}