{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-cargo-and-passenger-ship-construction-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2023/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-cargo-and-passenger-ship-construction-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2023/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/246",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Cargo and Passenger Ship Construction and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-cargo-and-passenger-ship-construction-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Radio Installations) Regulations 1998",
  "text": "In the Merchant Shipping (Radio Installations) Regulations 1998, in regulation 7 (interpretation of Part II), after the definition of “DSC” insert—\n““EPIRB” means an emergency position indicating radio beacon capable of transmitting a distress alert through the COSPAS/SARSAT polar orbiting satellite service operating in the 406 MHZ band;”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 19 in force at 29.3.2023, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/2070, as amended by S.I. 2000/2687, 2005/2114, 2016/1025, 2018/1221 and 2021/1316."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/246/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:48:35.024580+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."
}