{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-minimum-requirements-for-seafarers-etc-regulations-2014/regulation-41",
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  "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/41",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "41",
  "heading": "Part 8 requirements for non-United Kingdom ships with MLC documentation",
  "text": "(1) A ship must not be operated unless it complies with paragraphs 1 and 2 of Regulation 3.2 (food and catering) of the MLC.\n(2) A breach of paragraph (1) is an offence by the shipowner and the master of the ship.\n(3) The master of a ship must comply with the requirements in paragraph 7 of Standard A3.2 of the MLC with regard to –\n(a) frequent inspections; and\n(b) the documenting of such inspections,\nwhether or not the State whose flag the ship is entitled to fly has imposed those requirements in its national laws or otherwise.\n(4) A breach of paragraph (3) is an offence by the master of the ship.\n(5) A ship must not be operated unless it meets the minimum standards set out in—\n(a) sub-paragraph 2(b) of Standard A3.2 of the MLC; and\n(b) sub-paragraph 2(c) of that Standard.\n(6) A breach of paragraph (5)(a) is an offence by the shipowner and the master of the ship.\n(7) A breach of paragraph (5)(b) is an offence by the shipowner.\n(8) Subject to any dispensation issued by the State whose flag the ship is entitled to fly in accordance with paragraph 6 of standard A3.2 of the MLC, a shipowner must comply with the requirements in paragraphs 3 and 4 of Standard A3.2 of the MLC.\n(9) A breach of paragraph (8) is an offence by the shipowner.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1613/regulation/41",
    "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."
}