{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-certification-of-ships-cooks-regulations-1981/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-certification-of-ships-cooks-regulations-1981/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/1076",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Certification of Ships' Cooks) Regulations 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-certification-of-ships-cooks-regulations-1981",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Certification of Ships' Cooks) Regulations 1981 and shall come into operation on 1st September 1981.\n(2) In these Regulations:—\n“approved” means approved by the Secretary of State in accordance with Regulation 3 of these Regulations;\n“fishing vessel” means a vessel for the time being employed in sea fishing or a Government fishery research vessel, but does not include a vessel used otherwise than for profit;\n“GRT” in relation to a ship, means its gross register tonnage and the gross tonnage of a ship having alternative gross tonnages shall be taken to be the larger of those tonnages;\n“Merchant Shipping Notice” means a Notice described as such, issued by the Department of Trade and published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office;\n“Near Continental trading area” means the area bounded by a line from a point on the Norwegian coast in latitude 62° North to a point 62° North 02° West; thence to a point 58° North 10° West; thence to a point 51° North 12° West; thence to Brest, but excluding all waters which lie to the eastward of a line drawn between Kristiansand, Norway, and Hanstholm lighthouse on the North Danish coast;\n“pleasure craft” means a vessel primarily used for sport or recreation;\n“specified by the Secretary of State” means specified in Merchant Shipping Notice No. 981 and any reference to such Notice shall include a reference to any document amending it which is considered by the Secretary of State to be relevant from time to time and is specified in a Merchant Shipping Notice;\n“United Kingdom ship” has the same meaning as in section 21(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/1076/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:35:37.261476+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."
}