{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-high-speed-craft-regulations-1996/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-high-speed-craft-regulations-1996/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Requirements for high-speed craft",
  "text": "(1) (a) Subject to sub-paragraph (b) below, high-speed craft to which these Regulations apply shall be constructed, equipped, maintained and operated in accordance with the requirements of the High-Speed Craft Code.\n(b) Without prejudice to regulation 15 below, the Secretary of State may exempt—\n(i) high-speed craft not engaged on international voyages; and\n(ii) high-speed craft to which these Regulations apply by virtue of regulation 3(2) above,\nfrom any of the requirements of the High-Speed Craft Code as are in the opinion of the Secretary of State not appropriate to the voyage, or any intended voyage.\n(2) In complying with paragraph (1), so far as it relates to construction or maintenance relating to hull, machinery, electrical installations and control installations, United Kingdom high-speed craft shall comply with the approved standards listed in Merchant Shipping Notice No. M.1672 relevant to them.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/1957",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Marine Equipment) Regulations 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3188/regulation/4",
    "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."
}