{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-mandatory-ships-routeing-regulations-1997/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-mandatory-ships-routeing-regulations-1997/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1341",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Mandatory Ships’ Routeing) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-mandatory-ships-routeing-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Offences and penalties",
  "text": "(1) Any contravention of regulation 3 shall be an offence by the owner, the master and any other person for the time being responsible for the conduct of the ship, punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or on indictment by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or a fine or both.\n(2) It shall be a defence to a charge under these Regulations to show that there were compelling reasons not to use a particular adopted mandatory ships’ routeing system, and that such reasons were recorded in the ship’s log at the time.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1341/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:08:15.560097+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."
}