{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-passenger-ships-on-domestic-voyages-regulations-2000/schedule/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-passenger-ships-on-domestic-voyages-regulations-2000/schedule/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2687",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-passenger-ships-on-domestic-voyages-regulations-2000",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Merchant Shipping (Fire Protection: Small Ships) Regulations 1998 shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 1(7)—\n(a) in paragraph (a)(i), after the words “paragraph (8)” there shall be inserted the words “, and to regulation 5(1) of the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) Regulations 2000 (which relates to passenger ships of Classes III, VI and VI(A) which are 24 metres or over in length and are existing ships, engaged on domestic voyages, for the purposes of those Regulations),”;\n(b) in paragraph (b), after sub-paragraph (iv) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph:\n“(v) any passenger ship of Class III, VI or VI(A) which is a new ship, engaged on domestic voyages, for the purposes of the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) Regulations 2000.”.\n(3) In regulation 2(1), for the definition of Class II(A) ships there shall be substituted the following definition:\n“Ships engaged on voyages of any kind other than international voyages, which are not—\n(i)ships of Classes III to VI(A) as defined in the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction: Ships of Classes III to VI(A)) Regulations 1998; or\n(ii)ships of Classes A, B, C or D as defined in the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) Regulations 2000 which are new ships, engaged on domestic voyages, for the purposes of those Regulations.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 6 in force at 23.10.2000, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2687/schedule/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:13:03.462690+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."
}