{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-increased-penalties-regulations-1979/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-increased-penalties-regulations-1979/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/1519",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Increased Penalties) Regulations 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-increased-penalties-regulations-1979",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These Regulations, pursuant to specified paragraphs of Part VI of Schedule 6 to the Merchant Shipping Act 1979, increase the maximum penalties which may be imposed on summary conviction for breach of the following Regulations, which are amended by these Regulations:\nThe Merchant Shipping (Tonnage) Regulations 1967\nThe Merchant Shipping (Crew Agreements, Lists of Crew and Discharge of Seamen) Regulations 1972\nThe Merchant Shipping (Crew Agreements, Lists of Crew and Discharge of Seamen) (Fishing Vessels) Regulations 1972\nThe Merchant Shipping (Property of Deceased Seamen) Regulations 1972\nThe Merchant Shipping (Official Log Books) Regulations 1972\nThe Merchant Shipping (Official Log Books) (Fishing Vessels) Regulations 1972\nThe Merchant Shipping (Seamen's Documents) Regulations 1972\nThe Merchant Shipping (Disciplinary Offences) Regulations 1972\nThe Merchant Shipping (Diving Operations) Regulations 1975\nThe Merchant Shipping (Registration of Submersible Craft) Regulations 1976\nThe Merchant Shipping (Repatriation) Regulations 1979.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/1519/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:09:59.858049+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."
}