{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-emergency-information-for-passengers-regulations-1990/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-emergency-information-for-passengers-regulations-1990/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/660",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Emergency Information for Passengers) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-emergency-information-for-passengers-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Public Address Systems",
  "text": "(1) (a) Subject tosub-paragraph (b) below, every ship which is certified to carry more than 20 passengers shall be provided with a public address system.\n(b) This paragraph does not apply to any ship which is a new passenger ship for the purpose of the Merchant Shipping (Fire Protection) Regulations 1984 and which is of Class I or II, or IIA of 21.34 metres in length or over.\n(2) Notwithstanding the requirements of paragraph (1) in every ship of Classes IV, V. VI and VI(A) which is certified to carry not more than 50 passengers and in which the passengers have access to only one passenger compartment or space a portable loud hailer may be carried in lieu of providing a public address system.\n(3) Broadcasts made on the public address system shall be capable of being heard in all public spaces, including open decks, to which passengers have access.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/660/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:23:13.368098+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."
}