{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-operations-book-regulations-1988/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-operations-book-regulations-1988/regulation-2.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/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations:—\n“designated person” means the person described in regulation 6(1) below;\n“Master’s Standing Orders” means instructions issued in writing by the ship’s Master and includes written instructions issued by the ship’s officers under the authority of the Master;\n(2) Where a ship is managed by a person other than her owners (whether on behalf of the owner or some other person, or on his own behalf), a reference in these Regulations to the owner shall be construed as a reference to that person.\n(3) Reference to classes of ships means ships of those classes within the meaning of the Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances) Regulations 1986.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1066."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1716/regulation/2",
    "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."
}