{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-passenger-counting-and-recording-systems-regulations-1990/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-passenger-counting-and-recording-systems-regulations-1990/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/659",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Passenger Counting and Recording Systems) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-passenger-counting-and-recording-systems-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Operation of a passenger counting system",
  "text": "(1) The owner of a passenger ship shall ensure that there is a passenger counting and recording system which—\n(a) conforms to the requirements in paragraphs (2) and (3) below and paragraphs 5—13 in the Notice; and\n(b) is approved by the Secretary of State.\n(2) All passenger ships shall operate a passenger counting and recording system on each occasion when passengers are carried whereby—\n(a) (i) all passengers boarding such a vessel at a landing point at the beginning of a journey are counted individually on, or just prior to, boarding; and, as the case may be\n(ii) all passengers disembarking at subsequent landing points, during the course of a journey, are counted individually as they disembark; and\n(iii) all passengers boarding at subsequent landing points, during the course of a journey, are counted individually on, or just prior to, boarding; and\n(iv) the number of passengers remaining on board at each landing point is determined; or\n(b) passenger numbers are determined and recorded according to an alternative method approved by the Secretary of State, which shall be of equivalent effectiveness in determining and recording passenger numbers as the system set out in paragraph (2)(a) above.\n(3) Immediately before a passenger ship leaves any landing point the total number of passengers on board at that time shall be determined by means of a passenger counting system, the master shall be informed of that number, and a record of that number, and the number of crew members on board, shall be placed or communicated ashore.\n(4) The arrangements made in pursuance of the requirement in paragraph (1) above shall be described in written instructions which shall be kept on board the ship at all times in the custody of the master.\n(5) No passenger ship shall leave any landing point unless the requirements of paragraph (3) above have been complied with.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/659/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:23:13.979562+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."
}