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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-code-of-safe-working-practices-for-merchant-seamen-regulations-1998/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1838",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seamen) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-code-of-safe-working-practices-for-merchant-seamen-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, except where the context otherwise requires:\n“the Act” means the Merchant Shipping Act 1995;\n“Company”, in relation to a ship to which these Regulations apply, means the owner of a ship or any other organisation or person such as the manager, or bareboat charterer, who has assumed the responsibility for operation of the ship from the owner;\n“contract of employment” means a contract of employment, whether express or implied, and if express, whether oral or in writing;\n“employer” means a person by whom a worker is employed under a contract of employment;\n“Marine Information Notice” means a Notice described as such and issued by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, an executive agency of the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions;\n“pleasure vessel” means a pleasure vessel as defined in regulation 3(1) of the Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure) Regulations 1993;\n“safety officer”, and “safety representative” shall have the same meaning as in the Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) Regulations 1997;\n“sail training vessel” means a sail training vessel as defined in the Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) Regulations 1997;\n“the Code” means the “The Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seamen”, and any subsequent amendments and revisions to that publication, which the Secretary of State considers relevant from time to time and which shall be notified in a Marine Information Notice;\n“United Kingdom ship” means a ship which–\n(a) is a United Kingdom ship within the meaning of section 85(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995; or\n(b) is a hovercraft registered under the Hovercraft Act 1968;\n“worker” means any person employed by an employer under a contract of employment including trainees or apprentices other than trainees who are training on a sail training vessel.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/1072."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/2962."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Published by The Stationery Office in 1998; ISBN No. 011 5518 36 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1968 c. 59."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1838/regulation/2",
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  },
  "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."
}