{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-high-speed-craft-regulations-1996/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-high-speed-craft-regulations-1996/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3188",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (High-Speed Craft) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-high-speed-craft-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Application",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations apply to every high-speed craft which meets all of the following criteria:\n(a) it is a craft constructed on or after 1st January 1996;\n(b) it is a:\n(i) passenger craft which does not proceed in the course of its voyage more than 4 hours at operational speed from a place of refuge when fully laden; or\n(ii) cargo craft of 500 gross tons or more which does not proceed in the course of its voyage more than 8 hours at operational speed from a place of refuge when fully laden; or\n(iii) craft carrying less than 12 passengers and used for hire or reward; or\n(iv) craft of less than 500 gross tons and used for carrying cargo for hire or reward;\n(c) it is (wholly or partly)—\n(i) sea-going; or\n(ii) operating in any Category A, B, C or D waters;\n(d) it is—\n(i) a United Kingdom high-speed craft; or\n(ii) any other high-speed craft, when in United Kingdom waters;\nand\n(e) it is not a pleasure craft, within the meaning of regulation 3 of the Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure) Regulations 1993.\n(2) These Regulations also apply to high-speed craft constructed before 1st January 1996 and falling within all the criteria in paragraph (1)(b) to (e) above in respect of repairs, alterations and modifications of a major character made after 1st January 1996.\n(4) In this regulation—\n(a) Category A, B, C or D waters are waters specified as such in Merchant Shipping Notices No. M.1504 and 1569; and\n(b) “gross tons” means gross tons within the meaning of regulation 6 of the Merchant Shipping (Tonnage) Regulations 1982.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/1072."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1982/841 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3188/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:29:13.405192+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."
}