{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-accident-reporting-and-investigation-regulations-1994/regulation-3",
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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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Application",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 5(3) below, these Regulations shall apply in respect of serious injuries, dangerous occurrences and hazardous incidents as they apply in respect of accidents, except that regulations 5 and 7 shall not apply to hazardous incidents.\n(2) These Regulations apply to accidents involving or occurring on board—\n(a) any United Kingdom ship, except that regulation 5 shall not apply to pleasure vessels or to lifeboats operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution; and\n(b) any other ship within the United Kingdom or the territorial waters thereof, save that regulations 5 and 7 shall not apply to such a ship unless she is within a port in the United Kingdom or is employed in carrying passengers to or from a port in the United Kingdom.\n(3) An investigation may be held under regulation 6 into an accident involving or occurring on board a ship which is not a United Kingdom ship and which at the time of the accident was not within the United Kingdom or the territorial waters thereof, if the Secretary of State so determines.",
  "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/3",
    "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."
}