{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-means-of-access-regulations-1988/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-means-of-access-regulations-1988/regulation-2.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/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations:\n“access” means embarking on or disembarking from a ship;\n“Code” means Chapter 8 of the Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seamen published in 1978 by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office and any document amending or replacing it which is considered by the Secretary of State to be relevant from time to time and is specified in a Merchant Shipping Notice;\n“employer” means a person for the time being employing the master;\n“fishing vessel” means a vessel for the time being employed in fishing but does not include a vessel used otherwise than for profit;\n“master” includes any person in charge of a ship during the absence of the master but excludes a watchman;\n“Merchant Shipping Notice” means a Notice described as such issued by the Secretary of State;\n“offshore installation” means any offshore installation within the meaning ofsection 1 of the Mineral Workings (Offshore Installations) Act 1971;\n“pleasure craft” means a vessel primarily used for sport or recreation;\n“portable ladder” does not include a rope ladder.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 61; section 1 was substituted by section 24 of the Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Act 1982 (c. 23)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "replaced (by defn of pleasure vessel)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/1072",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure) Regulations 1993"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2114",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1637/regulation/2",
    "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."
}