{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-crew-accommodation-fishing-vessels-amendment-regulations-1998/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-crew-accommodation-fishing-vessels-amendment-regulations-1998/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/929",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Crew Accommodation) (Fishing Vessels) (Amendment) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-crew-accommodation-fishing-vessels-amendment-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Crew Accommodation) (Fishing Vessels) Regulations 1975",
  "text": "In regulation 1 the following definitions shall be added in the appropriate place:\n“existing fishing vessel” means a fishing vessel which is not a new fishing vessel;\n““new fishing vessel” means a fishing vessel:\n(a) for which the building or major conversion contract was placed before 23rd November 1995 which is delivered three or more years after that date; or\n(b) constructed on or after 23rd November 1995;\nexcept that if a building or major conversion contract was placed before that date and the vessel was delivered before 23rd November 1998 the vessel shall be regarded as constructed before 23rd November 1995;”\n“Register” means the Register of Ships maintained under Part II of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995;\n“worker” means any person carrying out an occupation on board a vessel, including trainees and apprentices but excluding shore personnel carrying out work on board a vessel at the quayside and port pilots;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/929/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:32:59.431430+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."
}