{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-means-of-access-regulations-1988/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-means-of-access-regulations-1988/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1637",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Means of Access) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-means-of-access-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Penalties",
  "text": "(1) Contravention of regulation 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 by an employer shall be an offence punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding £2,000 or on conviction on indictment by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine, or both.\n(2) Contravention of regulation 4, 7, 8 or 9 by a master shall be an offence punishable only on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding £1,000.\n(3) Contravention of regulation 10 shall be an offence punishable only on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding £400.\n(4) It shall be a defence for a person charged in respect of a contravention of regulation 4(1) or (2) or 9(2) to show that the requirements of the relevant regulation were complied with so far as was reasonably practicable.\n(5) It shall be a defence for a person charged under these Regulations, including a person charged by virtue of regulation 12, to show that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of the offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1637/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:57:53.564364+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."
}