{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-light-dues-regulations-2025/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-light-dues-regulations-2025/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/278",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-light-dues-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Light dues",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), light dues levied in accordance with these Regulations must be paid—\n(a) by way of periodical payments in respect of a ship which is a tug, fishing vessel or a pleasure vessel, or\n(b) per voyage for a ship in all other cases.\n(2) Light dues are not payable in respect of exempt vessels of a type set out in Schedule 1 (vessels exempt from light dues).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 1.4.2025, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/278/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:19:17.895420+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."
}