# Merchant Shipping (Loading and Stability Assessment of Ro/Ro Passenger Ships) Regulations 1989, Regulation 12: Penalties


(1) Any contravention of regulation 2(1), 2(2), or 8 shall be an offence on the part of the owner, any failure to provide correct computer calculations in accordance with regulation 5(3) and (6) shall be an offence on the part of the person or persons which has or have been contracted to perform these calculations, and any contravention of regulations 3, 4, 5(1), (2), (3) and (4), 6, 7, 10(1) or 11 shall be an offence on the part of the master. Any such offence shall be punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or on conviction on indictment by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or a fine or both.
(2) Where an approved shore-based computer system is used in accordance with regulations 3, 5(1) and (5) it shall be an offence by the person responsible for that system to fail to provide calculations required by the master, or to provide calculations which are not substantially correct. Any such offence shall be punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or on conviction on indictment by a fine.
(3) If any officer appointed in accordance with regulation 4(1) fails to ascertain the information required by that regulation, or does not use due care in ascertaining that information, he shall be guilty of an offence. Any such offence shall be punishable on summary conviction by a fine of £400 or on conviction on indictment by a fine.
(4) If the master or any person designated by the owner as being responsible in accordance with the Regulations referred to in regulation 5(6) fails to carry out the requirements of that regulation he shall be guilty of an offence. Any such offence shall be punishable on summary conviction by a fine of £400 or on conviction on indictment by a fine.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/100/regulation/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-loading-and-stability-assessment-of-roro-passenger-ships-regulations-1989/regulation-12
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