{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-navigation-bridge-visibility-regulations-1998/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-navigation-bridge-visibility-regulations-1998/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1419",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Navigation Bridge Visibility) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-navigation-bridge-visibility-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of Regulations",
  "text": "The Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships of Classes IV, V, VI and VI(A)—Bridge Visibility) Regulations 1992 shall be amended as follows:\n(i) in regulation 1(2) after the definition of `existing ship' the following definition shall be inserted:\n““length” means 96 per cent. of the total length on a waterline at 85 per cent. of the least moulded depth measured from the top of the keel, or the length from the fore-side of the stem to the axis of the rudder stock on that waterline, if that be greater. In ships designed with a rake of keel the waterline on which this is measured shall be parallel to the designed waterline;”;\n(ii) in regulation 1(2) the phrase “ships length” and its definition shall be omitted; and\n(iii) regulation 1(3), before the word “operating”, there shall be inserted the words “of less than 45 metres in length”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/2357."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1419/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:27:36.440167+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."
}