{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-gas-carriers-regulations-1994/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-gas-carriers-regulations-1994/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2464",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Gas Carriers) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-gas-carriers-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Penalties",
  "text": "(1) (a) If there is a breach of regulation 3, 5 or 9 in relation to a ship then the owner and master of the ship shall each be guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or, on indictment, to a fine.\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) It shall be a defence for a person charged with an offence under these Regulations to prove that he took all reasonable steps to ensure that the Regulations were complied with.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 10(1)(a) substituted (20.4.2004) by The Merchant Shipping (Gas Carriers) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/929), regs. 1(1), 6(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 10(1)(b) revoked (20.4.2004) by The Merchant Shipping (Gas Carriers) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/929), regs. 1(1), 6(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 10 in force at 1.10.1994, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2464/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:25:45.007581+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."
}