{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-official-log-books-fishing-vessels-regulations-1981/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1981/570",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Official Log Books) (Fishing Vessels) Regulations 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-official-log-books-fishing-vessels-regulations-1981",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These Regulations revoke the Merchant Shipping (Official Log Books) (Fishing Vessels) Regulations 1972, as amended, and re-enact those provisions with the following differences:\n(1) entries are required to be made in respect of the testing and inspection of the pilot's hoist;\n(2) entries are required to be made in respect of the drill, check and test of the ship's steering gear;\n(3) the requirements on the skipper to read over to an officer an entry relating to an officer's incompetence or serious negligence now includes a requirement to state the reason if the entry is not read over.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/570/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:40:45.412496+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."
}