{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2002/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2002/regulation-3.json",
  "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": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction: Ships of Classes III to VI(A)) Regulations 1998",
  "text": "The Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction: Ships of Classes III to VI(A)) Regulations 1998 shall be amended as follows—\n(a) in regulation 51(3), for “one propeller” there shall be substituted “ one or more propellers”;\n(b) at the end of regulation 60, after “Schedule 9” there shall be added “ in Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1698(M)”;\n(c) in regulation 62(1)(d), for “(published 1978)” there shall be substituted “ (published 1990)”;\n(d) after regulation 73(2) there shall be inserted—\n“(2A) If any officer appointed in accordance with regulation 23(1) reports to the master or other officer in charge of the bridge a door to be closed and locked when it is not in fact closed and locked he shall be guilty of an offence, punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or, on conviction on indictment, by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years and a fine.”; and\n(e) in regulation 73(3), for “level three on the standard scale” there shall be substituted “the statutory maximum”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/2515, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations. By virtue of regulation 5(1)(a) of the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2687) S.I. 1998/2515 ceases to apply to certain types of passenger ship of 24 metres or over in length engaged in certain domestic voyages from dates specified in regulation 4 of S.I. 2000/2687."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1650/regulation/3",
    "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."
}