{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-distress-messages-regulations-1998/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-distress-messages-regulations-1998/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1691",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Distress Messages) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-distress-messages-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Modifications",
  "text": "(1) Section 93 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 shall be modified as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1)—\n(a) after the words “a signal of distress” there shall be added the words “from an aircraft”; and\n(b) for the words “a ship or” there shall be substituted the word “an”.\n(3) Subsection (2) shall be omitted.\n(4) In subsection (3), for “subsections (1) and (2)” there shall be substituted “subsection (1)”.\n(5) Subsection (4) shall be omitted.\n(6) In subsection (5), the words “, and, if his ship has been requisitioned, from the duty imposed by subsection (2) above,” shall be omitted.\n(7) In the sidenote, for “ships, etc.” there shall be substituted “aircraft”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1691/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:25:38.670691+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."
}