{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-employment-of-young-persons-regulations-1995/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-employment-of-young-persons-regulations-1995/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/972",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Employment of Young Persons) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-employment-of-young-persons-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation and application",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“child” means a person who is under school-leaving age for the purposes of section 51 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970;\n“education authority” has the meaning given by section 135(1) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980;\n“local education authority” has the meaning given by section 114(1) of the Education Act 1944;\n“training ship” means a ship operated for the purpose of educating or training children;\n“United Kingdom ship” means a ship which—\n(a) is registered in the United Kingdom; or\n(b) is not registered under the law of any country but is wholly owned by persons each of whom is—\n(i) a British citizen, a British Dependent Territories citizen or a British Overseas citizen, or\n(ii) a body corporate which is established under the law of a part of the United Kingdom and has its principal place of business in the United Kingdom;\n“young person” means a person under the age of eighteen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 44."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1944 c. 31; the definition was amended by S.I. 1977/293."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/972/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:11:33.075405+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."
}