{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-minimum-requirements-for-seafarers-etc-regulations-2014/regulation-46",
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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/46",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Part 9 requirements for non-United Kingdom ships with MLC documentation",
  "text": "(1) A seafarer must—\n(a) be given access to prompt and adequate medical care whilst working on board the ship at no cost to the seafarer; and\n(b) be permitted to visit a qualified medical doctor or dentist without delay in ports of call, where practicable.\n(2) A breach of paragraph (1) is an offence by the shipowner.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (4), a ship must not be operated unless it carries a qualified medical doctor who is responsible for providing medical care.\n(4) Paragraph (3) does not apply to a ship unless—\n(a) it has 100 or more persons on board; and\n(b) it is engaged on an international voyage lasting more than 72 hours.\n(5) A breach of paragraph (3) is an offence by the shipowner.\n(6) In paragraph (3), “qualified medical doctor” means a person who is recognised as such by, and who (for the purposes of sub-paragraph 4(b) of Standard A4.1 (medical care on board ship and ashore) of the MLC) has the qualifications required by, the State whose flag the ship is entitled to fly.",
  "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/46",
    "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."
}