{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-pilot-boats-regulations-1991/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-pilot-boats-regulations-1991/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/65",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Pilot Boats) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-pilot-boats-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Exemptions",
  "text": "(1) Where these Regulations or the Code of Practice require that a particular piece of equipment or machinery shall be provided or carried in a pilot boat or that any particular provision shall be made, the Secretary of State may permit any other piece of equipment or machinery to be provided or carried, or any other provision to be made, if he is satisfied by trials thereof or otherwise that such other piece of equipment or machinery or provision is at least as effective as that required by these Regulations or the Code of Practice.\n(2) The Secretary of State may exempt any pilot boat from all or any of the provisions of these Regulations as may be specified in the exemption on such terms (if any) as he may specify if he is satisfied that compliance with such provision is either impracticable or unreasonable in the case of that pilot boat and may, subject to giving reasonable notice, alter or cancel any such exemption.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/65/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:53:06.383083+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."
}