{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-boatmasters-qualifications-crew-and-hours-of-work-regulations-2015/regulation-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-boatmasters-qualifications-crew-and-hours-of-work-regulations-2015/regulation-44.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/44",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Self-employed masters' hours of work",
  "text": "(1) A master to whom this Part applies must, so far as is reasonably practicable, be properly rested when first going on duty on any working day.\n(2) A master's working day must not exceed 16 hours.\n(3) A master must not on any working day have command or charge of a vessel or hovercraft for periods amounting in aggregate to more than 10 hours.\n(4) If on any working day a master has been on duty—\n(a) for a period of 6 hours, the end of which does not correspond to the end of the working day, or\n(b) for periods amounting in aggregate to 6 hours without having enjoyed a rest period of at least 30 minutes and the end of the last of those periods does not correspond to the end of the working day,\nthe master must take a rest period of not less than 30 minutes at the end of that 6-hour period or (as the case may be) at the end of the last of those periods.\n(5) The Secretary of State may grant an exemption from all or any of the provisions of this regulation in such circumstances and on such terms (if any) as the Secretary of State may require.\n(6) An exemption—\n(a) may be granted in respect of one or more vessels or hovercraft or a class of vessel or hovercraft , and\n(b) may be restricted to specified voyages or operations.\n(7) Subject to giving reasonable notice to the person affected, the Secretary of State may alter or cancel an exemption.",
  "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/44",
    "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."
}