{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-official-log-books-regulations-1981/regulation-3",
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  "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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Subject to the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts and of rules and regulations made thereunder entries of particulars specified—\n(a) in column 1 in each paragraph of Part I of the Schedule to these Regulations shall from time to time be made in the official log book kept in every ship not exempted from the requirement of section 68 of the Act of 1970 by regulation 2;\n(b) in column 1 in each paragraph of Part II of that Schedule shall be so made in the official log book kept in any such ship to which the Disciplinary Offences Regulations apply;\n(c) in column 1 in each paragraph of Part III of that Schedule shall be so made in the official log book kept in any such ship in respect of which a load line certificate has been issued under section 6 of the Act of 1967, except a ship which is—\n(i) a sludge carrier;\n(ii) a dredger;\n(iii) a hopper barge; or\n(iv) a tug or tender which, in either case, is on or is about to undertake a voyage of not more than 600 nautical miles in the course of which it is at no time more than 200 miles from a port or place in which the persons on board could be placed in safety and, if it carries passengers, does not carry more than 12; and\n(d) in column 1 in each paragraph of Part IV of that Schedule shall be so made in the official log book kept in any such ship to which the Closing of Openings Regulations apply.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/569/regulation/3",
    "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."
}