{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-official-log-books-regulations-1981/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-official-log-books-regulations-1981/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/569",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Official Log Books) Regulations 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-official-log-books-regulations-1981",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The master shall, within 48 hours after the time specified in paragraph (2) or in paragraph (3) (as the case may be) of this regulation, or, if it is not practicable within that time, as soon as practicable thereafter, deliver the official log book to the appropriate superintendent or proper officer.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3) of this regulation, the time referred to in paragraph (1) is either—\n(a) if any person is employed in the ship under a crew agreement, the time when the last person remaining so employed is discharged from the ship; or\n(b) in any other case, the time when the ship first calls at a port more than 6 months after the first entry (other than an entry specified in paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 5 or 43 of the Schedule to these Regulations) is made in the official log book.\n(3) If, at the time specified in paragraph (2) of this regulation—\n(a) there is pending a wages submission; or\n(b) (i) there is pending an appeal against a fine, or\n(ii) if no such appeal is pending, an entry relates to a fine, which has not been remitted, imposed for a disciplinary offence and in respect of which the time for the giving of notice of appeal by the appellant to the master (in accordance with regulation 12 of the Disciplinary Offences Regulations) has not expired;\nthe time referred to in paragraph (1) of this regulation is either the time when all such submissions or appeals have been determined by a superintendent or proper officer or withdrawn, or the expiration of 7 days after the time specified in paragraph (2) of this regulation, whichever shall be the earlier.\n(4) A master who fails to comply with paragraph (1) of this regulation shall be guilty of an offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1985/1828",
      "affecting_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Official Log Books) (Amendments) Regulations 1985"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/569/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:40:46.363407+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."
}