{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-hatches-and-lifting-plant-regulations-1988/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-hatches-and-lifting-plant-regulations-1988/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1639",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Hatches and Lifting Plant) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-hatches-and-lifting-plant-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Lifting Plant",
  "text": "(1) Contravention of regulation 4(1), 4(2), 5, 6(1), 6(3), 6(4), 7, 8, 9 or 10 by an employer shall be an offence punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding £2000 or on conviction on indictment by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or a fine, or both.\n(2) Contravention of regulation 4(1), (2), (3) or (4), 5, 6(1), (2), (3), or (4), 7, 8, 9 or 10 by a master shall be an offence punishable only on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding £1000.\n(3) Contravention of regulation 4(1), 4(5), 5 or 6(5) by any person shall be an offence punishable only on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding £400.\n(4) It shall be a defence for a person charged in respect of a contravention of any of these Regulations, including a person charged by virtue of regulation 12, to show that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of the offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1639/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:57:49.003284+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."
}