{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-recruitment-and-placement-regulations-2014/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-recruitment-and-placement-regulations-2014/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1615",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Recruitment and Placement) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-recruitment-and-placement-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) A person who contravenes regulation 4, 5, 6(2) , 6A or 7(1), (4) or (6) is guilty of an offence.\n(2) A person who makes or causes to be made or knowingly allows to be made any entry in a record required to be kept in pursuance of these Regulations which that person knows to be false in a material particular is guilty of an offence.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under this regulation is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 8(1) inserted (9.7.2026) by The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/598), regs. 1(1), 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(1) substituted (8.5.2016) by The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/510), regs. 1(2), 3(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1615/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:12:27.074820+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."
}