{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-cargo-and-passenger-ship-construction-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2023/schedule/paragraph-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-cargo-and-passenger-ship-construction-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2023/schedule/paragraph-12.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": "schedule/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "The Merchant Shipping (Counting and Registration of Persons on Board Passenger Ships) Regulations 1999",
  "text": "In the Merchant Shipping (Counting and Registration of Persons on Board Passenger Ships) Regulations 1999—\n(a) in regulation 5(1)(a), for “in the case of a passenger ship of Class II or II(A)” substitute “in the case of a passenger ship engaged on a short international voyage or a passenger ship of Class II(A)”;\n(b) after regulation 5(7) add—\n“(8) In this regulation—\n“short international voyage” means an international voyage—\n(a) in the course of which a passenger ship is not more than 200 miles from a port or place in which the passengers and crew could be placed in safety; and\n(b) which does not exceed 600 miles in distance between the last port of call in the country in which the voyage begins and the final port of destination.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 12 in force at 29.3.2023, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/1869, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/246/schedule/paragraph/12",
    "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."
}