{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-boatmasters-qualifications-crew-and-hours-of-work-regulations-2015/regulation-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-boatmasters-qualifications-crew-and-hours-of-work-regulations-2015/regulation-42.json",
  "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/42",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part 4",
  "text": "(1) In this Part—\n“hovercraft” has the meaning given in section 4(1) of the Hovercraft Act 1968 ;\n“rest period” means any time when a master is not on duty;\n“working day”, in relation to a master, means either—\n(a)where a period of duty is not followed by a rest period of at least 8 hours, the aggregate of—\n(i)that and each successive period of duty, and\n(ii)any intervals between those periods of duty,\nuntil there is a rest period of at least 8 hours; or\n(b)a period of duty which is followed by a rest period of at least 8 hours.\n(2) In this Part, a master is on duty where the master —\n(a) has nautical responsibility for a vessel or hovercraft in circumstances where this Part applies, and\n(b) is otherwise engaged in work for the purposes of a trade or business carried on by the master, being work in connection with a vessel or hovercraft to which this Part applies or with any passenger carried by that vessel or hovercraft.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1968 c. 59."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/410/regulation/42",
    "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."
}