{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-boatmasters-qualifications-crew-and-hours-of-work-regulations-2015/regulation-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-boatmasters-qualifications-crew-and-hours-of-work-regulations-2015/regulation-46.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/46",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Offence: failing to disclose a medical condition",
  "text": "(1) A person who contravenes regulation 25(1) ... is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(2) The owner of a vessel who causes or permits it to begin a voyage when the person serving as its master is a person who contravenes regulation 25(1) ... is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(3) It is a defence to a charge under this regulation that the person charged took all reasonable steps to avoid commission of the offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 46 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Merchant Shipping (Inland Waterways) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/808), regs. 1(2), 3(11); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/410/regulation/46",
    "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."
}