{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-life-saving-appliances-amendment-rules-1966/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-life-saving-appliances-amendment-rules-1966/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1966/744",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances) (Amendment) Rules 1966",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-life-saving-appliances-amendment-rules-1966",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "Ships of Class X, i.e. of fishing boats, of 60 feet in length or over are required by the Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances) Rules 1965 to carry portable radio equipment. Such equipment must comply either with Rule 26 of the Merchant Shipping (Radio) (Fishing Boats) Rules 1965 or with a Performance Specification issued by the Postmaster General.\nThese rules amend the Life-Saving Appliances Rules by substituting a new Performance Specification issued by the Postmaster General in place of that specified in the Rules.\nThey also amend Part I of Schedule 12 of the Rules by specifying a figure of 310 lbs. in place of 200 lbs. as the load which the tapes of life-jackets must be capable of taking, and requiring such tapes to comply with a specified British Standards Specification.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1966/744/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:45:38.617478+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."
}