{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-hours-of-work-regulations-2018/regulation-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-hours-of-work-regulations-2018/regulation-25.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/58",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Hours of Work) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-hours-of-work-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/25",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Offences, penalties and defence",
  "text": "(1) It is an offence for—\n(a) the master of the ship to breach regulation 5(1), (3)(b) or (4)(b), 8(1), 9(1), 10, 11(2), 12(1), (4)(a), (5) or (7), 13 or 17;\n(b) the employer of an employed seafarer to breach regulation 5(1), 8(1) or 16;\n(c) the person authorised by the master of the ship to breach regulation 9(1), 10, 12(1), (4)(a) or (5) or 13;\n(d) the shipowner to breach regulation 5(1), 8(1), 12(7), 14 or 17.\n(2) Where there is a contravention of regulation 15(1)(a) or (b), the employer of the seafarer is guilty of an offence.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under these Regulations is liable on summary conviction—\n(a) in England and Wales, to a fine;\n(b) in Scotland or Northern Ireland, to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(4) In any proceedings for an offence under these Regulations it is a defence for the defendant to show that all reasonable steps had been taken by the defendant to ensure compliance with these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/58/regulation/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:35:51.200859+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."
}