{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-operations-book-regulations-1988/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-operations-book-regulations-1988/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1716",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Operations Book) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-operations-book-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Penalties",
  "text": "(1) Where any of these regulations except Regulation 6(3) is contravened, then the owner, the designated person or the Master (as the case may be) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £2000.\n(2) Where the owner of a ship contravenes regulation 6(3) he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum and on conviction on indictment to a fine.\n(3) It shall be a defence for a person charged under this regulation to show that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of the offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 74 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1716/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:57:06.247239+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."
}