{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-minimum-requirements-for-seafarers-etc-regulations-2014/regulation-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-minimum-requirements-for-seafarers-etc-regulations-2014/regulation-28.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1613",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Minimum Requirements for Seafarers etc.) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-minimum-requirements-for-seafarers-etc-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/28",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Part 6 requirements for non-United Kingdom ships with MLC documentation",
  "text": "(1) A shipowner must make such provision as is necessary for the repatriation of a seafarer as soon as is practicable in the circumstances described in paragraph 1 of Standard A2.5.1 of the MLC, subject to any national provisions which have been adopted by the State whose flag the ship is entitled to fly pursuant to paragraph 2 of Standard A2.5.1.\n(2) A breach of paragraph (1) is an offence by the shipowner.\n(3) A shipowner must comply with –\n(a) the prohibitions in paragraph 3 of Standard A2.5.1, whether or not those prohibitions apply in the State whose flag the ship is entitled to fly; and\n(b) the requirement in paragraph 9 of Standard A2.5.1, whether or not the State whose flag the ship is entitled to fly has imposed that requirement in its national laws or otherwise.\n(4) A breach of paragraph (3) is an offence by the shipowner.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 28(1) substituted (12.7.2018) by The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Compulsory Financial Security) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/667), regs. 1, 2(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 28(3)(a) substituted (12.7.2018) by The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Compulsory Financial Security) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/667), regs. 1, 2(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 28(3)(b) substituted (12.7.2018) by The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Compulsory Financial Security) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/667), regs. 1, 2(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1613/regulation/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:12:29.056253+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."
}