{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-minimum-requirements-for-seafarers-etc-regulations-2014/regulation-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-minimum-requirements-for-seafarers-etc-regulations-2014/regulation-30.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/30",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Provision for certain older ships",
  "text": "(A1) A ship the keel of which was laid or which was at a similar stage of construction before 1st July 1979—\n(a) as respects crew accommodation which has not been substantially reconstructed or altered on or after that date, must comply with the requirements set out in Schedule 6 to the Merchant Shipping (Crew Accommodation) Regulations 1978 as if those Regulations had not been revoked;\n(b) as respects crew accommodation which has been substantially reconstructed or altered on or after that date but before 11th July 1997, must comply with the requirements set out in Part 1 of the Merchant Shipping (Crew Accommodation) Regulations 1978, as if they had not been revoked;\n(c) as respects crew accommodation which has been substantially reconstructed or altered on or after 11th July 1997 but before 7th August 2014, must comply with the requirements set out in the Merchant Shipping (Crew Accommodation) Regulations 1997.\n(1) A ship the keel of which was laid or which was at a similar stage of construction on or after 1st July 1979 but before 11th July 1997—\n(a) as respects crew accommodation which has not been substantially reconstructed or altered on or after 11th July 1997, must comply with the requirements set out in Part 1 of the Merchant Shipping (Crew Accommodation) Regulations 1978 , as if they had not been revoked;\n(b) as respects crew accommodation which has been substantially reconstructed or altered on or after 11th July 1997 but before 7th August 2014, must comply with the requirements set out in the Merchant Shipping (Crew Accommodation) Regulations 1997 .\n(2) A ship the keel of which was laid or which was at a similar stage of construction on or after 11th July 1997 but before 7th August 2014 must, as respects crew accommodation which has not been substantially reconstructed or altered on or after 7th August 2014, comply with the requirements set out in the Merchant Shipping (Crew Accommodation) Regulations 1997.\n(3) In this regulation “similar stage of construction” means the stage at which—\n(a) construction identifiable with a specific ship begins; and\n(b) assembly of that ship has commenced comprising at least 50 tonnes or one per cent of the estimated mass of all structural material, whichever is less.\n(4) A breach of paragraph (A1), (1) or (2) is an offence by the shipowner.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 30(A1) inserted (6.4.2018) by The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/242), regs. 1, 5(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 30(1) inserted (6.4.2018) by The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/242), regs. 1, 5(3)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 30(1)(a) substituted (6.4.2018) by The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/242), regs. 1, 5(3)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 30(1)(b) substituted (6.4.2018) by The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/242), regs. 1, 5(3)(b)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 30(2) substituted (6.4.2018) by The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/242), regs. 1, 5(3)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 30(4) substituted (6.4.2018) by The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/242), regs. 1, 5(3)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1978/795, amended by S.I. 1979/491, S.I. 1984/41 and S.I. 1989/184 and revoked on 11 July 1997 by S.I. 1997/1508."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/1508."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 30 excluded by S.I. 1998/2771, reg. 4(3) (as substituted (6.4.2018) by The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/242), regs. 1, 2(2)(c))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Reg. 30 excluded by S.I. 1998/2771, reg. 5(3) (as substituted (6.4.2018) by The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/242), regs. 1, 3(3)(b))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Reg. 30 excluded (13.12.2023) by The Merchant Shipping (Small Workboats and Pilot Boats) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1216), regs. 1(1), 5, Sch. 1 (with regs. 4, 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Reg. 30 excluded (12.12.2025) by The Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1195), reg. 1(1), Schs. 3, 4 (with reg. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1613/regulation/30",
    "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."
}