{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-health-and-safety-general-duties-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-health-and-safety-general-duties-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1396",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Health and Safety: General Duties) (Amendment) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-health-and-safety-general-duties-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "The Merchant Shipping (Health and Safety: General Duties) Regulations 1984 shall be amended by substituting for regulation 8 the following:—\n“8 (1) Contravention of regulation 4 of these Regulations 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 two years or a fine, or both.\n(2) Contravention of regulation 5 of these Regulations shall be an offence punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding £400.\n(3) Contravention of regulation 6 of these Regulations shall be an offence punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding £1000.\n(4) Contravention of regulation 7 of these Regulations shall be an offence punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding £1000.\n(5) It shall be a defence for a person charged under paragraphs (1) to (3) of this regulation 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": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1984/408."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1396/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:00:59.758434+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."
}