{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fees-regulations-2018/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fees-regulations-2018/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/1104",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fees-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Payment for travel, subsistence and other expenses",
  "text": "(1) Where a fee is determined by reference to the amount of work involved, the fee includes an amount for the time spent travelling, except that travelling time in excess of —\n(a) 4 hours for each visit to a ship or a person in the United Kingdom, and\n(b) 10 hours in any period of 24 hours for travel from the United Kingdom to a ship or a person located abroad and back to the United Kingdom,\nis to be disregarded.\n(2) The reasonable cost of travel and subsistence incurred in visiting a ship or a person outside the United Kingdom is to be reimbursed to the Agency in addition to the fee payable under these Regulations.\n(3) Paragraph (4) applies to expenses reasonably incurred in respect of any assistance provided to the Agency by a person not employed by it.\n(4) To the extent that the expenses referred to in paragraph (3) relate to a service or function of the Agency for which a fee is payable under these Regulations, they are to be reimbursed to the Agency in addition to that fee.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1)(a) inserted (6.1.2022) by The Merchant Shipping (Polar Code) (Safety) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1401), regs. 1(1), 11(3)(a) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1)(b) inserted (6.1.2022) by The Merchant Shipping (Polar Code) (Safety) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1401), regs. 1(1), 11(3)(a) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(2) inserted (6.1.2022) by The Merchant Shipping (Polar Code) (Safety) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1401), regs. 1(1), 11(3)(b) (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/1104/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:53:06.487642+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."
}