{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-life-saving-appliances-amendment-regulations-2001/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-life-saving-appliances-amendment-regulations-2001/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2642",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances) (Amendment) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-life-saving-appliances-amendment-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Communications equipment for Class V and VI ships",
  "text": "(1) In regulation7(1)(b) of the principal Regulations, for the words “paragraphs (4) and (5)” there shall be substituted the words “paragraphs (4) to (7)”.\n(2) For regulation 7(6)(a) of the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the following:\n“(a) if it is a ship which carries one or more open reversible liferafts, a means of communication which is portable, waterproof and capable in an emergency situation of making immediate contact with the emergency services for the area in which the ship is operating; and”.\n(3) In regulation 8(2)(d)(i) of the principal Regulations, for the words “at least 3” there shall be substituted the words “at least 2”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2642/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:34:03.499544+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."
}