{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-pilot-ladders-and-hoists-regulations-1987/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-pilot-ladders-and-hoists-regulations-1987/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1961",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Pilot Ladders and Hoists) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-pilot-ladders-and-hoists-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Citation, revocation and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations:—\n“associated equipment” includes manropes, safety lines and harnesses, lifebuoys with self igniting lights, heaving lines, lighting, and when required by regulation 7(8), stanchions and bulwark ladders;\n“existing ship” means a ship the keel of which was laid or which was at a similar stage of construction before 25th May 1980;\n“Merchant Shipping Notice” means a Notice described as such issued by the Department of Transport and any reference to a particular Merchant Shipping Notice includes a reference to any document amending or replacing that Notice which is considered by the Secretary of State to be relevant from time to time and is specified in a Merchant Shipping Notice.\n(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation of that number in these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1961/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:18:01.713197+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."
}