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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-bridge-visibility-small-passenger-ships-regulations-2005/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2286",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Bridge Visibility) (Small Passenger Ships) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-bridge-visibility-small-passenger-ships-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Application",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3), these Regulations apply in tidal waters to passenger ships of Classes IV, V, VI and VI(A) of less than 45 metres in length.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) –\n“Class IV” means a ship engaged only on voyages in Category A, B, C or D waters,\n“Class V” means a ship engaged only on voyages in Category A, B or C waters,\n“Class VI” means a ship engaged only on voyages with not more than 250 passengers on board, to sea, or in Category A, B, C or D waters, in all cases in favourable weather and during restricted periods, in the course of which the ships are at no time more than 15 miles, exclusive of any Category A, B, C or D waters, from their point of departure nor more than 3 miles from land,\n“Class VI(A)” means a ship carrying not more than 50 passengers for a distance of not more than 6 miles on voyages to or from isolated communities on the islands or coast of the United Kingdom and which do not proceed for a distance of more than 3 miles from land; subject to any conditions which the Secretary of State may impose,\nand in these definitions a reference to waters of a particular category means those waters as categorized in Merchant Shipping Notice (M) 1776.\n(3) These Regulations do not apply to a ship to which regulation 22 of Chapter V of the annex to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 as amended in accordance with its Protocol of 1988 and the resolution of the Maritime Safety Committee of the International Maritime Organisation published by the IMO as Resolution MSC.99(73) of December 2000 is applied by regulation 5 of the Merchant Shipping (Safety of Navigation) Regulations 2002 .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Cmnd 7874."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "Cm 4420."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/1473."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/680",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships) (Safety Code for UK Categorised Waters) Regulations 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/680",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships) (Safety Code for UK Categorised Waters) Regulations 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/1075",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Technical Requirements for Inland Waterway Vessels) Regulations 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/1075",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Technical Requirements for Inland Waterway Vessels) Regulations 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2020/673",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Safety of Navigation) Regulations 2020"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2286/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:53:59.674971+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."
}