{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-marine-equipment-regulations-1999/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-marine-equipment-regulations-1999/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1957",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Marine Equipment) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-marine-equipment-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Application",
  "text": "These Regulations shall apply to–\n(a) any United Kingdom ship; and\n(b) as respects equipment other than marine pollution equipment which is not also equipment for securing the safety of ships and persons on them, any other ship being–\n(i) a Class II(A) or IX ship;\n(ii) a Class II ship operating on a scheduled service from any port in the United Kingdom to any port in another member State, or vice versa; or\n(iii) a high-speed craft operating on–\n(aa) a scheduled service from any port in the United Kingdom to any port in another member State, or vice versa; or\n(bb) a voyage which is not an international voyage,\nto which the Merchant Shipping (High-Speed Craft) Regulations 1996 apply.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/3188."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/302",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (High Speed Craft) Regulations 2004"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1957/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:17:54.681891+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."
}