{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-high-speed-craft-regulations-2022/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-high-speed-craft-regulations-2022/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/1219",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (High Speed Craft) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-high-speed-craft-regulations-2022",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Merchant Shipping\nSafety\nMade 28th November 2022\nComing into force 19th December 2022\nThe Secretary of State, after consulting the persons referred to in section 86(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, and in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 85(1), (3), (5), (6) and (7), 86(1)(a), (b), (c) and (d), 302(1) and 306A of that Act, and with the consent of the Treasury, makes the following Regulations.\nIn accordance with paragraph 13(1) of Schedule 8 to the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, a draft of this instrument has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regulations excluded in part (13.12.2023) by The Merchant Shipping (Small Workboats and Pilot Boats) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1216), regs. 1(1), 5, Sch. 1 (with regs. 4, 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 21. Sections 85 and 86 were amended by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c. 28), sections 8 and 29(2) and Schedule 7. Section 85 was amended by the British Overseas Territories Act 2002 (c. 8), section 2(3). Section 306A was inserted by the Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), section 106. There are other amendments but none is relevant. Sections 85 and 86 are to applied to hovercraft by the Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1350)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2018 c. 16. Paragraph 13(1) was amended by the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020 (c. 1), Schedule 5, paragraph 54."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/1219/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:53:14.444131+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."
}