{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fire-protection-amendment-regulations-1999/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fire-protection-amendment-regulations-1999/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/992",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Fire Protection) (Amendment) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fire-protection-amendment-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For paragraphs (2) to (5) of regulation 25 there shall be substituted:\n“(2) Each outfit shall include breathing apparatus in accordance with Schedule 5 of Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1665; such breathing apparatus can be either the self-contained type, or the smoke helmet/smoke mask type.\nRequirements for ships constructed on or after 25th May 1980\n(3) Every ship of Class VII of 500 tons or over shall carry firemen’s outfits which shall comply with the requirements of regulation 46 in accordance with the following scale\nTonnage of the ship\nNumber of outfits\n500 but under 2,500\n2\n2,500 but under 4,000\n3\n4,000 or over\n4\n(4) Each outfit referred to in paragraph (1) or (2) above shall include breathing apparatus in accordance with Schedule 5 of Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1665; such breathing apparatus can be either the self-contained type, or the smoke helmet/smoke mask type.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/992/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:22.488704+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."
}