{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-hours-of-work-regulations-1995/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-hours-of-work-regulations-1995/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/157",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Hours of Work) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-hours-of-work-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "General duty of operators, employers and masters",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 6 below it shall be the duty of every operator of a ship, and of every employer, to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that the master and seamen do not work more hours than is safe in relation to the safety of the ship and the master’s and the seamen’s performance of their duties.\n(2) Subject to regulation 6, it shall be the duty of every master of a ship to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that the seamen do not work more hours than is safe in relation to the safety of the ship and the seamen’s performance of their duties.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/157/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:18:11.779690+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."
}