{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-boatmasters-qualifications-crew-and-hours-of-work-regulations-2015/regulation-20",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/410",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Boatmasters' Qualifications, Crew and Hours of Work) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-boatmasters-qualifications-crew-and-hours-of-work-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Boatmasters' licences and endorsements: conditions concerning qualifying service",
  "text": "(1) The conditions referred to in regulation 19(1)(c) are that—\n(a) the qualifying service has been undertaken during the period of 5 years ending on the date of the application,\n(b) in relation to the relevant class of licence or endorsement, a period not less than the period (if any) specified by the Secretary of State (the “minimum qualifying period”) has elapsed between the first day of the qualifying service time and the date of the application, and\n(c) in relation to an endorsement, other than a relevant local knowledge endorsement, at least half the qualifying service time has been undertaken in waters for which the endorsement is to be valid.\n(2) Except in the case of an endorsement to which paragraph (3) applies, in calculating the qualifying service time (but not the minimum qualifying period) for the purpose of an application for an endorsement of a Tier 1 licence, the Secretary of State must disregard qualifying service undertaken for the purpose of an application for—\n(a) the licence itself, or\n(b) another endorsement\n(3) (a) This paragraph applies to—\n(i) a Ro-Ro endorsement,\n(ii) a fast craft endorsement, and\n(iii) a relevant local knowledge endorsement, other than for the Port of London area.\n(b) In the case of an endorsement to which this paragraph applies, in calculating the qualifying service time for the purpose of an application for that endorsement, the Secretary of State may take account of the qualifying service undertaken for the purpose of an application for—\n(i) the licence itself, or\n(ii) another endorsement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/410/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:45:55.903486+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."
}