{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995/section-106",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995/section-106.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/21",
  "legislation_title": "Merchant Shipping Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995",
  "path": "section/106",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "106",
  "heading": "Unauthorised persons: offences relating to safety.",
  "text": "(1) Where a person goes to sea in a ship without the consent of the master or of any other person authorised to give it or is conveyed in a ship in pursuance of section 73(5)(b), sections 58 and 59 shall apply as if he were a seaman employed in the ship.\n(2) Subsection (1) above shall, in its application to section 58 so far as that section applies to ships which are not sea-going ships have effect—\n(a) with the omission of the words “goes to sea in a ship”; and\n(b) with the insertion, after the words “to give it”, of the words “ is on board a ship while it is on a voyage or excursion ”.\n(3) This section does not apply to fishing vessels.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/21/section/106",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:07.847944+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."
}