{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-high-speed-offshore-service-craft-regulations-2022/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-high-speed-offshore-service-craft-regulations-2022/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/41",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (High Speed Offshore Service Craft) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-high-speed-offshore-service-craft-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Application",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations apply to high speed offshore service craft (“HSOSC”).\n(2) An HSOSC is a craft which—\n(a) is either a United Kingdom high speed craft, or any other high speed craft in United Kingdom waters,\n(b) is operating—\n(i) at sea, or\n(ii) in Category A, B, C or D waters,\n(c) is of less than 500 tons gross tonnage,\n(d) is engaged in an operation to transport an aggregate of more than 12 persons consisting of industrial personnel, special personnel and passengers where at least one person is industrial personnel, from one place to another, including any part of that operation where they are not on board,\n(e) is not, during that operation, carrying more than 60 persons on board at any point in time, whoever those persons are, and\n(f) is not—\n(i) a pleasure vessel,\n(ii) a warship, naval auxiliary or another craft owned or operated by a State and used, for the time being, only on government non-commercial service,\n(iii) propelled other than by mechanical means,\n(iv) a wooden craft of primitive build,\n(v) a fishing vessel, ...\n(vi) engaged in a voyage from a port in one State to a port in another State , or\n(vii) a high speed passenger craft\n(3) In this regulation—\n“Category A, B, C or D waters” means waters specified as such in the Merchant Shipping Notice entitled MSN 1837 (M) Amendment 2;\n“craft” means ships and hovercraft;\n“gross tonnage” has the meaning given by regulation 6 of the Merchant Shipping (Tonnage) Regulations 1997;\n“high speed craft” has the meaning given to it in regulation 1.3 of Chapter X in the Annex to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974;\n“high speed passenger craft” means a high speed craft which carries more than 12 passengers;\n“industrial personnel” means persons who are transported or accommodated on board for the purpose of offshore industrial activities performed on board other ships or on offshore facilities;\n“offshore industrial activities” means the construction, maintenance, decommissioning, operation or servicing of offshore facilities related , but not limited to, to the exploration and exploitation of resources by the renewable or hydrocarbon energy sectors, aquaculture, ocean mining or similar activities;\n“passenger” means a person other than—\n(a)the master and the members of the crew or other persons employed or engaged in any capacity on board an HSOSC on the business of that HSOSC;\n(b)industrial personnel;\n(c)special personnel; or\n(d)a child under one year of age;\n“pleasure vessel” has the same meaning as in the Merchant Shipping (Survey and Certification) Regulations 2015 (see regulation 3(1) of those Regulations);\n“special personnel” means a person who is carried on board a ship in connection with the special purpose of that ship or because of special work being carried out on board that ship, but who is not a member of the crew;\n“United Kingdom high speed craft” means a high speed craft which is a United Kingdom ship or hovercraft registered in the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 3(2)(d) substituted (19.1.2026) by The Merchant Shipping (Safety Measures for Ships Carrying Industrial Personnel and Special Personnel) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1298), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 18(a)(i) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(2)(f)(v) omitted (19.1.2026) by virtue of The Merchant Shipping (Safety Measures for Ships Carrying Industrial Personnel and Special Personnel) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1298), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 18(a)(ii)(aa) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(2)(f)(vi) inserted (19.1.2026) by The Merchant Shipping (Safety Measures for Ships Carrying Industrial Personnel and Special Personnel) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1298), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 18(a)(ii)(bb) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 3(2)(f)(vii) inserted (19.1.2026) by The Merchant Shipping (Safety Measures for Ships Carrying Industrial Personnel and Special Personnel) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1298), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 18(a)(ii)(cc) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(3) substituted (19.1.2026) by The Merchant Shipping (Safety Measures for Ships Carrying Industrial Personnel and Special Personnel) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1298), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 18(b)(i) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(3) inserted (19.1.2026) by The Merchant Shipping (Safety Measures for Ships Carrying Industrial Personnel and Special Personnel) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1298), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 18(b)(ii) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(3) inserted (19.1.2026) by The Merchant Shipping (Safety Measures for Ships Carrying Industrial Personnel and Special Personnel) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1298), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 18(b)(iii) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(3) inserted (19.1.2026) by The Merchant Shipping (Safety Measures for Ships Carrying Industrial Personnel and Special Personnel) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1298), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 18(b)(iv) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(3) inserted (19.1.2026) by The Merchant Shipping (Safety Measures for Ships Carrying Industrial Personnel and Special Personnel) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1298), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 18(b)(v) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 9.2.2022, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "A copy of this notice may be seen at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/msn-1837-m-amendment-2-categorisation-of-waters or obtained by writing to the Maritime & Coastguard Agency, Spring Place, 105 Commercial Road, Southampton, SO15 1EG."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/1510, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2015/508, amended by S.I. 2018/53. There are other amendments but none are relevant."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/41/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:04:57.582265+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."
}