{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-load-line-regulations-1998/regulation-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-load-line-regulations-1998/regulation-30.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2241",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Load Line) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-load-line-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/30",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Greater than minimum freeboards",
  "text": "(1) A freeboard determined in accordance with regulation 29 is the minimum freeboard that may be assigned to the ship.\n(2) (a) Subject to subparagraph (b) below the Assigning Authority may however, if it is satisfied that the ship complies with the requirements of these Regulations, assign freeboards (other than Timber freeboards) which exceed the minimum freeboards by such an amount as it may determine.\n(b) Timber freeboards shall not be assigned to a ship to which greater than minimum freeboards have been assigned.\n(3) Where a freeboard greater than the minimum is assigned to a ship and the load line appropriate to that freeboard corresponds to, or is lower than, the position at which the lowest of the load lines appropriate to minimum freeboards would be marked then—\n(a) load lines only appropriate to the greater than minimum Summer freeboard and Fresh Water freeboard shall be marked on the sides of the ship;\n(b) the load line appropriate to the greater than minimum Summer freeboard shall be known as the “All Seasons load line” and shall consist of the horizontal line intersecting the load line mark;\n(c) the vertical line described in regulation 18 shall be omitted;\n(d) subject to the provisions of subparagraph (c) above, the Fresh Water load line shall be as described in regulation 18(1) and be marked accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/1335",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Load Line) (Amendment) Regulations 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2241/regulation/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:18:50.366535+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."
}