{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2002/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1650",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2002",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend two earlier instruments to correct defects, and are being issued free of charge to all known recipients of those instruments.\nRegulation 2 amends the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction: Ships of Classes I, II and II(A)) Regulations 1998 to correct a reference to a published code of practice, clarify the offence in regulation 91(5) and alter the penalty for contravention of regulation 42(1).\nRegulation 3 amends the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction: Ships of Classes III to VI(A)) Regulations 1998 to alter a manoeuvring requirement, clarify a reference to a Merchant Shipping Notice, correct a reference to a published code of practice, create an offence where a door is reported closed and locked but is not closed and locked, and alter the penalty for contravention of regulation 34(4)(a) of those Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1650/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:54:06.734348+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."
}